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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If we were to imagine them to be au Coran in the m ways that they would need to be to elevate some of their brethren to
To cerebral celebrity.
We would be endowing these subhuman components with too much human psychology.
And of course installing a patent infinite regress in the model of as a theory of consciousness.
The looming infinite regress can be stopped the way such threats are often happily stopped.
Not by abandoning the basic idea, but by softening it.
As long as your homunculi are more stupid, okay.
an ignorant and the intelligent agent they compose
The nesting of homunculi within homunculi can be finite, bottoming out eventually, with agents so unimpressive that they can be replaced by machines.
So consciousness is not so much fame then as political influence, a good slang term is clout, when processes compete for ongoing control of the body and
The one with the greatest clout dominates the scene until a process with even greater clout displaces it.
In some oligarchies, perhaps, the only way to have clout is to be known by the king.
Dispenser of all powers and privileges.
Our brains are more democratic, indeed somewhat anarchic.
In the brain there is no king, no official viewer of the state television program.
No Cartesian theater, but there are still plenty of quite sharp differences in political clout exercised by contents over time.
In DN's terms, this political difference is achieved by reverberation of
In a sustained amplification loop.
While the losing competitors soon fade into oblivion,
unable to recruit enough specialist attention to achieve self sustaining
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