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🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On "Consciousness and Its Place in Nature" by David Chalmers (2003), with special guest Gregory Miller from the Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast.
Can we explain human experience using the terms of brain physiology? Chalmers thinks not, and lays out the arguments against this and the range of positions philosophers have taken in response to these objections.
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0:00.0 | You are listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point |
0:11.1 | set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. |
0:14.1 | Our question for episode 218 is what is consciousness? |
0:17.6 | We're going to be talking about David Chalmers paper, consciousness and its place in nature |
0:22.0 | from 2003. |
0:23.0 | We're also going to be referring to two papers that we're going to actually cover in |
0:26.5 | the next episode, Ned Blocks, the harder problem of consciousness in 2002 and David Papinows |
0:31.2 | could there be a science of consciousness in 2003? |
0:33.4 | For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
0:36.4 | This is Mark Linton-Meyer experiencing objects themselves and not merely my sensations of |
0:40.1 | them in Madison, Wisconsin. |
0:42.3 | This is Wes Alman in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
0:46.3 | This is Dylan Casey, conceding my zombie hood while noting that my zombie hood is not |
0:50.5 | even properly flyed by naturalism in Madison, Wisconsin. |
0:54.5 | And this is Gregory Miller thinking that old problems were hard, but they're just about |
0:58.5 | to get harder in headroom, bridge, West Yorkshire, England. |
1:03.1 | Well, that's very thorough. |
1:04.1 | Do you want to give a zip code to? |
1:06.1 | Thank you. |
1:09.3 | Yeah, people might know Mr. Miller here, Greg, from the Panpsicast. |
1:13.4 | And you teach, tell us a little about what you do where you're coming from. |
1:16.8 | So yeah, I joined the Panpsicast team from about episode 19 onwards. |
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