The Machine That Can Bring Back My Mother

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We don't know yet what the big machine is. Angela seemed to believe that it was a time machine that could bring back her mother, but there has been really no discussion of what that machine is. The first season involved this elaborate hack into essentially encrypting all of the worlds,. All of the biggest banks financial documents. They undo the hack at the end of last season and the world goes back to presumably normal.

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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