Descartes and Princess Elisabeth. Name a more iconic duo. Is dualism of the mind and body the answer? Or is the mind-body problem insurmountable? Will physicists be able to tell us what consciousness is? I don't have answers, only more questions. Also, what is it like to be a bat? Just curious.
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Learn more about the topics discussed-
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/elisabeth-bohemia/
René Descartes:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/
Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?:
David Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness:
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/ChalmersHardProblem1995.pdf
Dan Dennett's TED page:
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_dennett
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