Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then he gives these examples about comparing the red of the American flag is the same or lighter or darker than the or less orange than the standard red of Santa's suit or so forth and so on.
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Basically doing discrimination comparisons.
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And we can do that by looking at two things or do them in our mind's eye.
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And then he does this comparison with how you would do this with a computer.
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Sensor, and which you had, he gave a simple, simplified example of where it distinguishes the colors between red number 163 and red number 172, and characterizes the distinction between those two colors.
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And his assertion is that the way in which we talk about and the way in which we experience color is no different than that.
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And it doesn't take anything away from the experience.
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Experience of colour.
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to have it be that way.
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So the the problem that I have with the way you're accounting for is you're not telling me what is the thing that's missing.
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just want to hear one example of one thing that is possibly missing about the experience and the social experience, the interpersonal experience, the individual experience.
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Of color, it could be in a poem.
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Give me one example that isn't involving discrimination, comparison to memory, comparison to your mind's eye, verbal exchange with somebody else.
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Give me one example.
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You think he cherry picked colour as a really rich example of this kind of controversy?
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does talk about pain and he would put pain in exactly the same category.
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even yeah.
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It's absolutely true.
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And Dennett's absolutely clear about this in Conscious Robot section that if you built a a robot, let's call it a non-organic based automaton.
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Okay, that had sufficient complexity in terms of memory, in terms of sensory production, in terms of discrimination, that we could imagine getting to the point where that entity experienced pain that you would have to recognize as pain.
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