Dylan Casey

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Ep. 400: Dennett Rejects Qualia (Part Two) · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

We don't need all the rest of this stuff.

So that doesn't scare me.

I'm not worried about that particular aspect of it.

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bunnies, I would not like that.

I think this leads to, there's an aspect of, again, something I didn't take detailed notes on, but I remember distinctly.

But I could be mistaken because we all know how memory works after reading chapters one and five.

Obviously, these types of motivations or feelings are evolutionarily important.

And so it makes perfect sense that we would feel differently about animals that have been domesticated over tens of thousands of years versus wild animals and reptiles, primates feeling that way about reptiles and various sorts of other things.

Now I could make a joke here about Chris and I being evolved in the sense that Dylan was talking about that we've moved beyond this, you know, since.

We've transcended.

We've transcended and you guys being stuck in your hominid ways.

But I think that when Dennett is talking about suffering as the basis for, and I'm not going to talk about suffering, but he says, he talks about the woman whose name was, it's worth a mention, page 451, if anybody happens to be on there.

So anyway, I'll just read this.

Suffering by the emotional mind is revealed by animals that have enough of a rational mind to be able to do something about the conditions that make them suffer.

And she says it's likely that organisms without the capacity to do anything to remove themselves from a source of danger would not evolve the capacity to suffer.

There would be no evolutionary point in a tree which was having its branches cut off, having the capacity to suffer in silence.

So Dawkins was talking about color, the idea that color, the ability to distinguish colors and the way in which we distinguish colors is an evolutionary trait that essentially part of the consequence of there not being colors, quote unquote, out there in the things.

is we have evolved the ability to discriminate colors in nature because that serves some evolutionary purpose, perhaps identifying food, perhaps identifying threats, dangers, whatever, and probably various other sorts of motivations.

And so it's not, it's absolutely responsible and useful

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