Very Bad Wizards: Episode 4

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It was unclear to me that you could go anywhere with this identity thing. By episode four, we were all 100% convinced that it was almost pitched as sort of a hacker fight club. So maybe what we'll do is some Patreon bonus episodes after like a couple of episodes. Go let's go watch it if you haven't.

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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