Ep. 400: Dennett Rejects Qualia (Part One)

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Sep 14, 202652:21Religion & Spirituality

We focus on the final chapters of Dan Dennett's Consciousness Explained , where he confronts various views, figures, and thought experiments that contend that he's failed to explain the essence of consciousness: the "wha...

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