The Problem With the Inverted Spectrum

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I don't think he's trying to pose a particular, like, I don't know, honestly. But, but, you know, like problems like the inverted spectrum where suppose that you see the spectrum one way and I see it completely opposite. We have the same words for it and we behave the same one presented with similar stimuli. There's no way that I actually can have access to to your conscious experience. Your and what I know just by stipulating it is that you are actually consciously experiencing something different than me - there's nothing in your behavior that might lead me to be able to to know that.

We try (with varying success) to wrap our heads around Thomas Nagel’s classic article “What is it Like to be a Bat?" Does science have the tools to give us a theory of consciousness or is that project doomed from the outset? Why do reductionist or functionalist explanations seem so unsatisfying? Is the problem that consciousness is subjective, or is it something about the nature of conscious experience itself? Is this ultimately an epistemological or metaphysical question? What are we talking about? Do we even know anymore?

Plus, the return of Mr. Robot! We talk about the big new mystery at the heart of the new season.

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