Seth Paskin

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1,271 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Ep. 400: Dennett Rejects Qualia (Part One) · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

You did an optical. podcast-host

It's actually podcast-host

It's actually gray. podcast-host

That that's the way we would use the word seams. podcast-host

Yes. podcast-host

And I guess podcast-host

This is one of the things I think that Dennett walks up to this kind of thing, which is he, I think it was earlier, he acknowledges that this conversation where I would want to say, well, it's actually gray, but it only seems blue in the presence of hallucinations immediately gets you into this conversation of, well, what is it actually? podcast-host

What is the truth of the matter? podcast-host

And he is very clear that the truth of the matter is something that. podcast-host

We have to agree on. podcast-host

So he gives a couple of different examples besides the bat. podcast-host

He reanalyzes the bat in terms of the Leipzig singers, you know, trying to recreate what it was like. podcast-host

Talking about what it was like to hear box cantatas for the first time and how it would move you if you were a resident of Leipzig. podcast-host

And, you know, pointing out that that experience of what it was like to listen to box cantatas would be accessible for but you would have to do a lot of work to do it to get as close as possible to what that was like. podcast-host

And that has to do with podcast-host

The context, the history, the environment, the state of religion, all that kind of thing. podcast-host

And he does a similar thing in analyzing the bat, in that you can get really far with understanding how the bat works and understanding what it would be like to be a bat. podcast-host

I think that he acknowledges that you're going to end up just by the fact that you'd use language to do this, and you are podcast-host

giving a narrative of it, it is going to be distinct from that, from talking about what the bat is experience is, is not going to be narrative and is going to end up being a set of experiences the bat has. podcast-host

Yes. podcast-host

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