Her, Nagel & The Mind-Body Problem

Hello! In this video, we’ll analyze how “Her” enacts Thomas Nagel “mind-body problem”. Subtitles available on the configurations ;)

To go beyond, here are some quotes from Nagel, related to the subject:

“An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism.”

“If the facts of experience—facts about what it is like for the experiencing organism—are accessible only from one point of view, then it is a mystery how the true character of experiences could be revealed in the physical operation of that organism.”

“We may call this the subjective character of experience. It is not captured by any of the familiar, reductive analyses of the mental, for all of them are logically compatible with its absence.”

Soundtrack of the video “Photograph by Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett"

Directed by Spike Jonze

Written by Spike Jonze

Produced by Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay

Starring  Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson

Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema

Edited by Eric Zumbrunnen, Jeff Buchanan

Music by Arcade Fire

Production company: Annapurna Pictures

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures