Mark Linsenmayer

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10,656 appearances 39 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

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But Dennis seems to think that that is, it is data to be explained.

It is not itself explained.

the scientific image of the world.

matter and then there's points of view on the matter.

That would be a form of dualism, a property dualism.

That's explicitly what Chalmers'

So chapter five, right?

This is the multiple drafts versus the Cartesian theater.

Whenever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

This is one of the most fun ideas we have about minds or about consciousness.

A conscious mind is an observer who takes in a limited subset of all the information and

For most practical purposes, we can consider the point of view of a particular conscious subject to be just that, a point moving through space-time.

What happens when we try to close in on the observer and try to locate the observer's point of view more precisely as a point within the individual?

So in other words, a point of view is exactly the kind of thing, like a self, like the center of gravity, that is a theoretical construction, right?

that it is not a fundamental datum given indubitably by experience, right?

For Descartes, it is.

I exist.

I am here having these potentially delusionary, wrongheaded thoughts, but I'm having the thoughts.

That is just absolutely central.

But Dennett seems to think that we can eventually get beyond that to say that

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