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Of the theories addressing consciousness an American student of nonviolence called Michael Nagler proposed that consciousness, Chalmers' Hard Problem, didn't come from inside each one of us, it came from outside us and we tuned into it. In Michael's view consciousness is very much the primary presence in the universe. A substrate, a fundamental layer. So for Micheal the call is for a new story, a rewriting of our understanding that incorporates a universal that includes the stars and planets, everything, we all share. Another chap, a man called Thomas Nagel, like Chalmers agreed that the Hard Problem was well outside the realm of science, and if it was a shared substrate of some sort it would still remain subject to the gap between subjective and objective. Thomas asked us to imagine what it might be like to be a bat. Here we can understand the objective science, we might imagine the world of a bat, but we'd never share the subjective experience of being a bat. And for that matter, although I might want to, I can never experience being you.
