Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part One) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

The climax and denouement of our summer philosophy of mind series: Ned Block visits to fill in the gaps about functionalism and attributing consciousness to machines and discuss essays from Blockheads (2019), focusing here on Brian McLaughlin’s “Could an Android be Sentient?”

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