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Dec 2012
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PREMIUM-Episode 68: David Chalmers Inter...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On David Chalmers's book Constructing the World (2012). How are all the various truths about the world related to each other? David Chalmers, famous for advocating a scientifically respectable form of brain-consciousness dualism, advocates a framework of scrutability: if one knew some set of base truths, then the rest would be knowable from them. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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