The Third Personality

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It could be that he's always known about this third personality has repressed it completely at the beginning of this, right? So one of the things that we are told about Elliot is that he is suppressing so much of his emotion that it's bad for him. And like part of me thinks, is that really a third identity or is that just Elliot in a bad emotional state?" "I don't know how much I like it," she said when asked if there was another side to Mr. Robot. "[The] demons and the details will have to be well done"

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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