Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
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The Subjective Character of Consciousness
The most important characteristic feature of conscious mental phenomenon is very poorly understood. Most reductionist theories do not even try to explain it. It's useless to base the defense of materialism on any analysis of mental phenomena that fails to deal explicitly with their subjective character, he says. "There is no reason to suppose that a reduction which seems plausible ... can be extended to include consciousness"
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