Dylan Casey
speaker
1,538 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Dylan Casey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes.
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He says it's an abstraction in the same way that we call the law of gravity.
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Now, gravity is a force, gravity exists, but our representation that we call the law of gravity, which we use to solve equations and all that kind of stuff, is just an abstraction from all of this repeated physical data that we have that tells us that there's this regular behavior in the universe.
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And that may not be the perfect analogy or the perfect example, but it's similar.
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Where he says, when we create abstractions to help explain things doesn't mean that those abstractions actually exist.
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It's just a way that we use to tie a bunch of things together and make sense of them.
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And he said, and that's why ultimately only a creature that has sufficient narrative capabilities to describe the abstraction that is itself is capable of even talking.
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talking about it that way, but that doesn't mean there's any there there, so to speak.
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Yeah, I just want to read something really quick because I think it kind of encapsulates addresses both Mark and Dylan your point just now.
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Page three seventy-two.
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I am denying that there are any such properties, and what he means there is the qualia.
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But here comes that theme again.
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I agree wholeheartedly that there seemed to be qualia.
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There seemed to be qualia because it really does seem as if science has shown us that blah blah blah colors can't be out there.
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And it's like it seems what is in here can't just be the judgments we make when things seem color seem colored to us.
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He says what's
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What science has actually shown us is just that light reflecting properties of objects cause creatures to go into various discriminative states, scattering about in their brains and underlying a host of innate dispositions and learned habits of varying complexity.
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And then he goes on and says, okay, well, what are the properties of discriminative states?
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Right.
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And that's when he's going to talk about dispositional properties and saying, like, I know it's not really this color, but it sure seems like that color.
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