Wes Alwan
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first heard Jun 2026
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Well, you know how I feel about Dennett?
I felt like Consciousness Explained is not an intellectually honest book.
That's my big problem with it.
And
I found out with the last episode that constitutionally I am capable of enduring eliminist, you know, sorts of claims with smart and place.
So it's not like I can't I'm just too prejudiced to
Consider those views.
But we'll see, you know, Dennon, I when he was arguing with Sam Harris about the odd is distinction, he gave such a scintillating, clear explanation of that, which Harris was completely obtuse to, and I gained, you know, newfound respect for him.
So I'm ready to change my opinion, you know, maybe late-stage-what it what is he did?
What's he doing here?
Is he saying, Well maybe there's a little bit of consciousness?
Yeah.
It's not that I misunderstand the argument, and I found it interesting in those other guys.
No, I legitimately think he argues in bad faith in various places and is evasive and And so more about whi the way he's arguing than what he's arguing.
Although I do think right, I'm not sure we can wriggle out of
saying all right, now we no longer have to worry about the ontological status of qualia because we're talking about the experiencing, because we still have to place events in our ontology and say what they're like and whether or not we've done everything that we need to do by calling it a
Brain process is a
is a big problem.
It may be just as big a problem to say, as I pointed out in our last episode, to say there's well, there's Cartesian mind stuff there.
Actually when you think about it, it becomes unclear how that's an improvement on the brain.
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