Seth Paskin

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

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Ep. 399: Dan Dennett's Model of Mind (Part Two) · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

Where you have a stick that's bent in such a way that when you stick it in the water, it looks like it's straight. podcast-host

You know, this is what illusions are about, right? podcast-host

Illusions may become illusions. podcast-host

You call them illusions because there is a fact of the matter that it doesn't look like. podcast-host

So you make a judgment that is contrary to the fact of the matter where that fact involves something that you can probe more deeply to say that this is what was really going on. podcast-host

So you have a refined judgment of the situation. podcast-host

And the fact is that you could totally get fooled again by the conclusion that you come up with, the judgment that you come up with ends up, it's undermined by some other new facts of the matter that are really are judgments that you made about what was really going on. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

I mean, part of it is that there's nothing that you experience that doesn't come without a frame for that experience. podcast-host

You have a set of expectations that you're bringing. podcast-host

This is to anything that you see, hear, or experience at all. podcast-host

And that this is the multiple, to me, the core of the multiple drafts model is that there's constantly this distillation and set of judgments that are happening. podcast-host

identifying or not identifying things all the time podcast-host

yeah the closest thing to the fixed display ends up being what you end up writing down in your memory podcast-host

That you refer back to. podcast-host

And even that could be wrong, right? podcast-host

You could have things that were wrong about that. podcast-host

But that's the closest thing to where you have... podcast-host

And in fact, he doesn't really talk about this, but it seems obvious that part of this component has to do with the way in which those multiple drafts are working off of memory. podcast-host

It's not as if all of this is constantly in active motion all the time, but it's also interacting with memory as well. podcast-host

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