{"podcast":{"title":"Sadler's Lectures","slug":"sadler-s-lectures-233636","podcast_index_feed_id":233636,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:452424567/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000454164567-ok8t43-original.jpg","author":"Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler","episode_count":500,"summary":"I'm that YouTube Philosophy Guy! Find more than 3…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T04:21:47.402430+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636"},"episode":{"title":"Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like To Be A Bat? - Reductionist Accounts And Conscious Experience","slug":"thomas-nagel-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat-reductionist-accounts-and-conscious-experience","published_at":"2026-06-15T13:47:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636/thomas-nagel-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat-reductionist-accounts-and-conscious-experience","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636","url":"https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/robert-nagel-what-is-it-like","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2326233692-gregorybsadler-robert-nagel-what-is-it-like.mp3","summary":"This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay \"What Is It Like To Be A Bat\", and focuses upon the first part of the article, in which Nagel raises a number of general problems for adopting a physicalist reductionist analysis of mind to resolve the mind-body problem by explaining conscious experience in terms of something non-mental, e.g. the brain. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler or Buy Me A Coffee - https://buymeacoffee.com/a4quydwom If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 4,000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Get Nagel's What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - https://amzn.to/3P8ihhk","meta_description":"This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay \"What Is It Like To Be A Bat\", and focuses upon the first part of the a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":677,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sadler-s-lectures-233636/episodes/thomas-nagel-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat-reductionist-accounts-and-conscious-experience/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636/thomas-nagel-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat-reductionist-accounts-and-conscious-experience.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}