Very Bad Wizards · Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")
December 9, 2025·1 hr 21 min·2 clips
William James says consciousness is "a theater of simultaneous possibilities" shaped by selective attention.
As heard by us
A conversational debate about consciousness that stays lively even when it wanders.
The episode frames consciousness as a real argument: whether it is best explained by breaking experience into pieces or by treating it as something that arrives whole.
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