{"podcast":{"title":"The Uncertainty Podcast","slug":"the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022","podcast_index_feed_id":7089022,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2770715.rss","website_url":"https://mileskdonahue.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2770715/103a86bed70977c39ac1021809009112.jpg","author":"Miles K. Donahue","episode_count":89,"summary":"I am a philosophy graduate and host of the Uncertainty podcast, featuring discussions with Tim Maudlin, William Lane Craig, Graham Oppy, Robin Collins, and others.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T18:17:12.802461+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022"},"episode":{"title":"#67 Is Consciousness Physical? - Emerson Green","slug":"67-is-consciousness-physical-emerson-green","published_at":"2026-01-15T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022/67-is-consciousness-physical-emerson-green","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022","url":"https://mileskdonahue.substack.com/p/67-is-consciousness-physical-emerson","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/184643942/e7f0bc0b5d5cdf5d2d12c49fe50d91c4.mp3","summary":"Emerson Green walks through three powerful objections to attempts to reduce consciousness to the brain: phenomenal transparency, philosophical zombies, and vagueness.Check out Emerson's YouTube channel . To support the channel, do please oh please consider donating, either via PayPal or Buy Me a Coffee . Follow me on X-formerly-Twitter . EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:05 What are you a YouTuber? 00:19:08 Objection #1 - Phenomenal transparency 00:29:22 Why physicalism cannot tolerate transparency 00:32:31 What if consciousness is translucent? 00:38:36 Maybe there are no mental states at all 00:49:52 Objection #2 - Philosophical zombies 01:00:57 Different types of conceivability 01:12:29 What about modal skepticism? 01:17:32 Objection #3 - Vagueness 01:24:40 When do we go from non-conscious to conscious? Get full access to Miles K. Donahue at mileskdonahue.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Emerson Green walks through three powerful objections to attempts to reduce consciousness to the brain: phenomenal transparency, philosophical zombies, an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5429,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022/episodes/67-is-consciousness-physical-emerson-green/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022/67-is-consciousness-physical-emerson-green.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}