Mark Linsenmayer

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

And with a snake, he's saying it's actually quite obvious.

Like there is a single genetic blueprint for a snake that is somehow makes it reproduce and makes it have this thing.

But in terms of it being a subject,

at least the idea here is maybe there's something it's like to smell a mouse and there's something it's like to feel the mouse's head and there's something, but there's no single entity, according to this, at least that we, you know, we could imagine that there is nothing that it is like to be a whole snake, that these are discriminations that are happening in different parts of the organism.

And just like, you know, I and my digestion are,

and my circulatory system don't all share the same sensory system, I don't have no idea what's going on with my digestion, you know, then the snake is also multiple and maybe doesn't have the kind of global, nothing arises to its global access that would make Denny call it conscious.

I think he does.

Yes.

But suffering is not, it can't just be a rough feel.

Yes.

It has to be embedded in its behavior and its way of seeing the world.

So it does seem like you have to have an overall point of view or a fundamental self or something in order to suffer.

does.

This is not where I expected this conversation to end up.

Sorry, sorry.

I think it's a fine place to, you know, what is the humanistic upshot of all this?

Because on the one hand, I really like the metaphor of everybody is a world.

This is like Levinas, you know, everybody's a whole world.

And so it's, you know, to murder somebody is the worst possible thing.

But I also know, you know, I think this is a, it's a fine moral fiction, right?

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