Dylan Casey
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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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things that could be, in some meaningful sense, I guess, attributed to
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objects in the world.
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And then his secondary qualities are things which involve obviously in involve objects with primary qualities, but ultimately we would say are located in the subjective experience of those objects.
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So those would be things like color, smell, or aromas, taste, and so on.
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And we can go
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Through the argument in more detail, but in essence, what Dennett says is that if you dig yourself out from underneath all of the stuff about qualia, it's ultimately just a recapitulation of the idea of secondary.
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qualities and that there are a number of things that are challenging about that particular concept secondary qualities.
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He's ultimately not just going to accept some of the objections to secondary qualities, but also say that ultimately the whole concept of a secondary quality or a qualia requires this Cartesian theater thing that he set up, which we talked about in the last episode.
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Yes, that's ultimately where he's gonna get.
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There are a couple of steps and one I think so I'm gonna try to recite this.
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I don't have specific notes on this, but I'll recite it and you can tell me if I remember it correctly or not.
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So he's kind of setting up this idea of qualia, the way it's used as this it is supposed to give you something more.
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than a
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so-called materialist or quote unquote scientific explanation, right?
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Like so to explain my experience of red, you can't explain my experience of red by just saying, oh, light frequency wavelength, blah da-de-blah, bouncing off of surface, yada yah, and hitting.
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None of that captures what the experience, I'm using scare quotes for listeners in the audio section here, to
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explain or capture a describe, it's unclear to me, but
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the experience of seeing red
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You have to add something to the mechanics of what biologically, physically is actually happening when you see red.
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saying the quality of the
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