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 Problem With Dualism
"I am left with an air of mysticism about how physical things could cause consciousness," Nagel says. "Maybe there is a class of creatures that can know exactly what this bridge, like what can bridge these two in terms of a scientific theory." But they wouldn't even be able to explain it to us. Right. Like dogs doing calculus, right? Like they have brains and they can know things. They'll just never know what we know.
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