What is consciousness? The short of it: nobody knows.This episode we dive into a really hotly debated topic, consciousness. What is it? How do we test it? Do animals have it? Do machines have it? Does Aaron's calculator have it? DOES THIS PODCAST HAVE IT? Does it even exist?References: <a target="_blank" href="https://organizations.utep.edu/Portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf">What is it like to be a bat</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.radiolab.org/story/smarty-plants/">Smarty Plants</a>Opening Invocation: Dealer's Choice &nbsp;(Source: Tax Day)Hero of the Week Liberty Mutual (not a sponsor) http://thehill.com/homenews/media/381049-liberty-mutual-to-stop-running-ads-on-laura-ingrahams-show&nbsp;

EV - 038 Expletive with Ris and Priss

Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it&#x2019;s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever enough to do anything about it. The void seems terrible and cruel, but it loves you, in its own ironic way.