The series
Videos
Ten short narrated films, each under six minutes, told through the site's animations and paintings, in the style of the Philosophy of Time series. Each will also appear on the page it belongs to.
Season 1 is in production. Episodes 1 to 3 are out; the rest follow. Each card links to the page where its film appears, so you can read the material first.
The magician's secretDennett's stage-magic argument: why illusionism should be the default, with the cups, the flag after-image and colour phi.
The ghost in the machineDescartes builds the inner theatre; Ryle, Dennett's teacher, calls it a category mistake.
Inside the millLeibniz walks into a thinking machine; Huxley hears its steam whistle.- Can a machine think?Turing's imitation game against Searle's Chinese room.
- What is it like to be a bat?Nagel's bat, Jackson's Mary and Dennett's blue banana.
- Minds without brains?Putnam's functionalism and Block's nation of China.
- ZombiesChalmers's hard problem and the zombie argument, with Dennett's zimboes.
- The illusion problemFrankish's illusionism, and an illusion that survives knowing the truth.
- Seeing redHumphrey's magical show and Graziano's attention schema.
- The far sideSeth's controlled hallucinations, Goff's conscious universe, and a look back over the series.
Narration will use an AI voice, as on the Philosophy of Time films, and every episode will have English captions. The sister series, ten films on time from Heraclitus to the felt present, is on the Philosophy of Time videos page.