Seth Paskin
speaker
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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Yes.
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You could have a discussion about whether the story about the dream makes more sense or not, given the questions that were asked and answered, right?
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You mean
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Yeah, of
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I think that answer would be very in line with the way you figure anything out.
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Right.
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And the more questions you ask and the more answers you get and the more you demand of it, I mean, very quickly you get something that looks very much like the way in which you figure things out in the world.
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that
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I find it funny that we keep this tendency to just characterize, well, what our brains are doing is just making up a whole bunch of bullshit or we're having all these illusions because I think it's just falling exactly into the trap that Dennett is saying is a trap, which is.
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And that way, I guess Dennett himself falls into this, right?
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Because he starts using these words like illusion and not illusion.
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And when we use that language, it makes it sound like, oh, well, that there's anything different between us concluding that something is real and it being real.
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So it's as real as you're able to conclude it to be real.
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And you have reasons for doing, for making that.
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And it's not, and your ability to say you're right or wrong is actually a complicated thing.
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for which you don't have an answer where you can go look it up in the research book and say, oh, actually, you know, hey, I looked it up, the answer in the back of the book, and I confirmed that I worked out the problem and I looked in the back of the book.
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Yep, I was right.
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That image of consciousness is exactly what Dennett is criticizing.
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And that is the image that we constantly have, both about consciousness and about reality and the way in which you experience the world, is that there is a set of answers in the back of the book that's different than the figuring it out and deciding,
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whether you're right or not.
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