Hannah Fry

The cause and effect is not, oh, I think I'll press that button over there.

And then the message gets sent to your arm, at which point you go to move the button.

It's the other way around.

Your arm makes the movement and then your brain retrospectively comes up with that decision afterwards.

Easily.

Maybe.

But I mean, there's a reason why they call this the hard problem, which is literally the name of it.

What is it like to experience the world from inside somebody else's body?

It's a hard problem because it's not falsifiable, right?

There's no real way.

You can have ideas and theories, but ultimately we just...

For now, don't know.

Maybe it is.

I mean, I think you're probably right that actually if you just swapped over the taste, for example, just the signal for taste, it would be like, well, this is a trippy experience.

But actually, ultimately, I don't think it would disintegrate your sense of self.

But if you swapped over all of it, the whole lot...

I don't know.

I think there's a chance you'd completely disintegrate.

There wouldn't be a you left.

Would you suddenly absolutely despise olives and love chili, you know?