Mark Linsenmayer

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10,656 appearances 39 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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

I think that whole like Florida has too many iguanas and we encourage you to go out and brain them.

I think that is totally fine and humane.

Whereas with

So I looked at so many of his subsequent articles that I don't even remember where this came from.

But, you know, we started talking about pain at the beginning and somewhere he does talk about pain specifically and just asks, what is it about pain?

Well, it is its functional relationship to everything else.

And if you took all these things like part of, you know, you care about pain, you want to avoid pain.

So if you took the caring and wanting to avoid pain away and you took everything else and you were only left with the feel of pain, there's nothing left.

Like the fact that you don't like pain is part of

Yes, exactly.

So that is his whole point.

I read a bunch more of him talking about how what a ridiculous idea he thinks philosophical zombies are.

Right.

The idea that you have all the same reactions.

You not only pass the Turing test, but you have all the same even inner relations.

So, you know, the entirely the same biology.

But yet maybe you could not have consciousness.

You could have it.

Maybe the light could be on.

or the light could be off.

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