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Lyft is a ride-sharing company very similar to Uber and is expanding globally. Brayden genuinely wants to help improve the state of the world and talks about how his work at Lyft helps him do that.
What Is It Like To be a Bat?
The sixth episode in a series wherein Mark Taylor talks with me about the mind-body problem and the so-called "hard problem" of consciousness. We continue discussing Wittgenstein's elliptical remark about talking lions, leading Mark to bring up a recent book about someone attempting to mimic animal behaviour in great detail, which then leads back to Thomas Nagel's seminal article "What Is It Like To be a Bat?". Synesthesia and the various "modalities" of perception come up, as well as wider questions surrounding the whole idea of the "self".
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More information:
- William Lane Craig, "Further Reflections on the Sean Carroll Debate," Question of the Week #369 (May 11, 2014); http://www.reasonablefaith.org/furthe...
Edward Witten on consciousness
(the relevant part begins at 1:10:25)
"I think consciousness will remain a mystery. Yes, that's what I tend to believe. I tend to think that the workings of the conscious brain will be elucidated to a large extent. Biologists and perhaps physicists will understand much better how the brain works. But why something that we call consciousness goes with those workings, I think that will remain mysterious. I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness... Perhaps it won't remain a mystery if there is a modification in the laws of physics as they apply to the brain. I think that's very unlikely. I am skeptical that it's going to be a part of physics."
John Horgan comments ; consciousentities