In this episode, we discuss and explore the hard problem of (talking about) consciousness, or as Thomas Nagel puts it - "what is it like to be a bat?" We discovered that some people really do doubt the validity of the hard problem, and it made for an interesting and challenging dialogue.
http://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf?fbclid=IwAR047SGKkksCd29-wYDlF4PuoCt0QqqMzY_zF1ffZB5ibpXUKRGJ5cvAyDo
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2TIf0ng-xpRB9dOao-s4KdOanWS5qalpQoCMQwJiMdzHY9WDk9vU52VNs
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