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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No, it doesn't make any sense to me that there's a distinction between the feeling of being conscious and the act of judging.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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To me, it makes utter complete sense that the experience of consciousness is experience of me is just a living being that's making judgments and decisions and conclusions about the world.
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And that's the experience of being conscious.
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That's what consciousness is.
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It's an action.
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It's a
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So I don't see why the question or the consideration, what is it like to be, is somehow dismissed or rendered moot by this way of talking at all.
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It seems to me it completely perseveres.
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In fact, it makes more sense.
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Yeah.
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And this is the streams aspect of it as being...
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also gets back to the fact of the matter question and the notion that our consciousness has at its root accesses the fact of the matter and there's a separate activity of interpreting that happens
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So that, you know, the sense experience can be, if you go, you can make the distinction between the Stalinist interpretation, the Stalinist or the Orwellian interpretation of the woman with the glasses.
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Because you can establish, oh, well, the stream of the experience, that is the things that actually happened in the world that impinged on my consciousness, right?
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I can dissect those and then be able to say what the fact of the matter was.
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And that stream, that fact of the matter doesn't exist.
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Only what exists are the judgments.
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