Something Is Expected Something Is Expected Something Is Expected is Theresa Sokyrka's second album. It was released on August 29, 2006. Except for "Bluebird", the album contains all original songs. Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies and The New Pornographers members John Collins and David Carswell split the album's production duties. Dave Thompson, guitarist/producer for High Holy Days and Leslie Carter mixed "Yours Is Yours". The first single from the album was "Waiting Song", released in Canada. A music video was made, and can be seen on MuchMoreMusic. Sokyrka travelled to Peru to create her second video for the second single, "Sandy Eyes",
What Is it Like to Be a Bat? to have a conscious experience it must be special, in the sense that its qualia or "subjective character of experience" are unique. Nagel stated, "An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism – something that it is like for the organism to be itself." The paper argues that the subjective nature of consciousness undermines any attempt to explain consciousness via objective, reductionist means. A subjective character of experience cannot be explained by a system of functional or intentional states. Consciousness cannot be explained without the subjective character