Dylan Casey

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1,538 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Ep. 399: Dan Dennett's Model of Mind (Part Two) · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

Like he says, you know, you build the steam engine and then it has, it makes a sound, right? podcast-host

The sound is just an artifact. podcast-host

It's not functionally part of what... podcast-host

that thing does or is, but it does have an effect in the world. podcast-host

And he says, but you also then had the idea of an epiphenomena that is not functionally part of the thing, but also has no effect or possibly has no effect. podcast-host

And so he's saying, he kind of puts the ball back in the other court and says, just explain to me why you need this concept. podcast-host

And his answer is you need the concept because you're tied to this idea that you're in this movie theater of your mind, having this experience in this way, right? podcast-host

But if you can drop that metaphorical construct, then the need for qualia goes away. podcast-host

But Jesus, is it compelling? podcast-host

I mean, who hasn't read Nagel's article and been... You can't just not react to that thing. podcast-host

It's pretty... podcast-host

We do think that there is something, what it's like to be something, that there's an experiential aspect that somehow supervenes on top of just the basic processes, right? podcast-host

So this is so fascinating. podcast-host

Dennett's complaint here about qualia is something like, podcast-host

treats Qualia like, why do you need to introduce another ontological element into the equation? podcast-host

Why do you need another thing? podcast-host

And in a weird way, the structure that he's built up, and this is chapter 12 again, I apologize, but this idea that we have this evolutionarily complex, dynamic structure podcast-host

discriminatory, constructive kind of relationship with our environment. podcast-host

And that's how we build ourselves. podcast-host

The quote unquote, what is it like to be Seth is not a thing, like another thing I have to put into the ontology on top of the characteristics. podcast-host

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