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Episode #5: Bryce Blankenship (Authenticity, Identity, and Environmental Philosophy)

Into the Absurd

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The Brain and the Bat

In a belief in reality class, we were in a thinker named Daniel Dennett. He's an interesting dude. So, this elaborate thought experiment is that they take his brain out of his body, put it in a bat and then essentially, his brain in the bat controls the body of Dennett with radio transmitters. And so, classic philosophical, you know, mind-body problem,. Where's the self-located, if there even is a self? It's so trippy.

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