Sean Carroll

Dan will specifically say consciousness is real, but it's not what you think it is, or qualia is real, but they're not what you think they are or something like that.

So the illusion is not.

the existence of consciousness.

It's the way that consciousness comes about and where it comes from that is the illusion, okay?

That's way too nuanced for people to really wrap their brains around, and so they're going to get accused of saying that consciousness is an illusion, and that's a little bit their fault.

I think that that's just bad marketing on their part.

Anthony Rubo says, the Knicks, the New York Knicks, successfully moved on to our chagrin.

Are you rooting against them due to their status as Sixers villain or rooting for them due to their current Villanova connections?

And if both, which wins out?

So for those of you who don't know, my beloved Philadelphia 76ers had a heroic comeback in the first round of the playoffs against the hated Boston Celtics, only to be entirely humiliated in the second round by the New York Knicks.

And the Knicks, you know, I got to say, like, there's a little bit of resentment in certain circles, and I'm in some of those circles, that the Knicks get too much attention.

Because historically, the New York Knicks have not been a great franchise.

Like, they won a couple of NBA titles, but the last time they did that was in the 1970s.

Their overall historic winning percentage is less than 50%.

You know, they don't have a lot of people.

They had some good eras.

You know, the Patrick Ewing era was very good.

But overall, they're a pretty mediocre franchise, all things considered.

But because they're in New York City, they had a tremendous amount of publicity and people root for them and things like that.

Yeah.