What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel's influential essay proposing that consciousness is defined by the subjective experience of being a system, which is crucial for understanding consciousness but difficult to operationalize.
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Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast): A Conversation with Anil Seth (Episode #264)
Sam Harris
Thomas Nagel's influential essay proposing that consciousness is defined by the subjective experience of being a system, which is crucial for understanding consciousness but difficult to operationalize.
Thomas Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (Full Conversation)
Closer To Truth
Nagel's legendary 1974 article that reshaped the concept of consciousness, challenging the reduction of subjective experience to objective science.
Why Physics Cannot Be a Theory of Everything | Thomas Nagel
Closer To Truth
Thomas Nagel's seminal 1974 essay that challenged the prevailing assumption that subjective experience could be fully explained by objective science.
Michael Pollan on Consciousness, Psychedelics, and the Limits of Neuroscience
Sam Harris
An influential essay by Thomas Nagel that explores the subjective nature of consciousness and the difficulty of understanding it from an external perspective.