Wes Alwan
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5,753 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Wes Alwan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sure.
Yeah.
I think there was some split off part of consciousness for which there was a
Well, maybe there isn't.
Maybe it's even the wrong question.
Maybe it it's not that there is and it's not that there isn't, or it's like m maybe as Dennett might be saying, it's there's it's in between.
the way
Yep.
But the state itself I'm not sure if Dennis is saying this, but maybe maybe he is, is somewhere on the spectrum between unconscious and conscious, but
Okay.
The key point for both McCarthy and Rosen is
Is that it is the specialist demons accessibility to each other and not to some imagined higher executive or central ego.
That could in principle explain the dramatic increases in cognitive competence that we associate with consciousness.
The availability of
to deliberate reflection, the non-automaticity, in short, the open minded mindedness that permits a conscious agent to consider anything in its purview.
In any way it chooses.
Alright, so we can see why he likes the pandemonium thing, 'cause it's a bottom up picture.
Mm-hmm.
This idea was also central to what I call the multiple drafts model, which was offered as an alternative to the traditional and still popular Cartesian theater model.
Which supposes there is a place in the brain to which all the c unconscious modules send their results for ultimate conscious appreciation by the audience with a capital A.
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