Wes Alwan

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5,753 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Sep

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · PEL Presents Closereads: Late Dennett on Consciousness (Part One) · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

But one must then take on the burden of explaining why that activity ensures the political power of the events it involves.

And this means taking a good hard look at how the relevant differences in competence might be enabled by changes in the status of the brain.

Is that clearer?

Okay, so some some contents become elevated to the being the

The political power

Or the famous one.

Not all things in the brain do that.

So they the conscious ones hang around monopolizing time in the limelight.

Okay.

There is no single attention giving source.

There's a tension grabbing here.

But um no single source of that because right, attention is what we really is kind of what we're explaining.

So we can't just say, Oh, there's an attention source.

Yeah, and I so I think the other aspect here, it's you could say the connection to behavior, but you could also just say it's about its relationships to other parts of the brain, right?

Mm-hmm.

It's availability or influence or

you read read this paragraph and we'll be done for

Yeah.

This is a new idea.

That's not necessarily helpful in understanding what's come so far.

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