2014-10-11
15 分钟This is philosophy bites, with me, Nigel.
Warburton, and me, David Edmonds.
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Take the sound of this podcast.
What does it sound like to you?
A podcast is not just a series of sound waves.
It has a subjective impact.
That is, there is something it is like for you to hear the podcast.
It may sound different to how somebody else hears it, but how can we make sense of this subjectivity, of this rich inner life of sounds and tastes and smells?
A former philosophy bytes interviewee, David Chalmers has called this the hard problem of consciousness.
Keith Frankish agrees it's hard, but thinks he may have a solution.
Keith Frankish, welcome to philosophy bites.
Thank you for inviting me.
The topic we're going to focus on is the hard problem and the illusion of qualia.
What is the hard problem?
Well, consciousness, I think everyone agrees, is weird.
It's a very important thing.
It's perhaps the thing that we're most intimately familiar with, and it seems very, very hard to explain.
The hard problem is precisely explaining it.