Thomas Nagel — Person Summaries
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You’d Be Surprised How Bad of a Person You Are - Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think
A thought experiment built to make moral rules feel fair—Rawls’s “veil of ignorance”—runs into a deeper problem: people can’t actually escape bias,...
Is Your Brain Hallucinating Reality?
Consciousness remains the one mystery that is both unavoidable and uniquely hard to pin down: everyone has direct access to their own experience, yet...
Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time – It was thought to be impossible
Scientists have found a way to make “qualia”—the private, subjective feel of experience—measurable in practice by linking specific experiences (like...
One of the Most Unsettling Facts About Consciousness That Science Can't Solve
A woman who never experienced emotion in childhood becomes the world’s leading expert on feeling—only to confront a final, unsettling question: can...
The World Is Re-Enchanted When We Pay Attention To Trees
The central thread running through this episode is a call to “re-enchant” everyday life by paying attention to trees and other nonhuman beings—while...