
Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Gap Between Concepts and Facts
Dylan: Imagine a congenitally blind neuroscientist, right? If you think listening on audiobook to facts about color vision or vision science would entail facts about what it's like to see, then you would think that listening to those audiobooks would allow you to see again. We think that those type of facts don't entail those. So it looks like there is really this gap between the two types of things, right? And as we'll talk about in a minute, that epistemic gap, charm as things goes on to entail an ontological gap.
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