Episode 24: Fading Qualia

Published: March 1, 2015, 2:14 p.m.

Is it a law of nature that if your neurons are gradually replaced with silicon chips, your qualia won\u2019t thereby gradually fade? Can the armchair methodology of analytic metaphysics deliver knowledge of natural laws? Or can the boundaries of the nomologically possible be discerned only within the natural sciences? And who cares? Richard Brown and Pete Mandik, that\u2019s who!