Richard Brown takes a one-episode hiatus while Pete Mandik heads down to Texas to talk to philosopher Ken Williford. Pete and Ken discuss whether (1) it’s desirable for humans to transform themselves into something alien, (2) whether we or our brains are already alien to us, and (3) whether an “acquaintance relation” view of consciousness is consistent with physicalism.

• Ken Williford - VIDEO: Meditation Neuroscience and Ethics 
• Ken Williford - Representationalisms, Self-Acquaintance & Subjective Character
• Ken Williford - Husserl’s Hyletic Data and Phenomenal Consciousness
• Ken Williford - VIDEO: Mescaline & Jean-Paul Sartre’s Theory of Imagination
• Stanislaw Lem - His Master’s Voice 
• Stanislaw Lem - Fiasco 
• Philip Goff - Real Acquaintance and Physicalism 

Pete and Ken on the road in Texas. October 2014.