Consciousness, Computational Pythagoreanism, & Explanation

This video chat is the basis for episodes 2 & 3 of the SpaceTimeMind podcast with Professors Richard Brown and Pete Mandik. The audio from the first half of the video chat found its way into Episode 2: "Consciousness Explained (?) Part 1: Computational Pythagoreanism" and the second half wound up in Episode 3 "Consciousness Explained (?) Part 2: The Nature of Explanation." More info is available at the following links:

http://www.spacetimemind.com/blog/2014/4/6/episode-2-consciousness-explained-part-1-computational-pythagoreanism

http://www.spacetimemind.com/blog/2014/4/14/episode-3-consciousness-explained-part-2-the-nature-of-explanation