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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.

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They think it's because they wanted the piece of cake and mommy said no. podcast-host

And that may be part of it, deprivation. podcast-host

But really, it's because they were offended. podcast-host

It's the pain of Aristotelian slights and anger, what psychoanalysts would call narcissistic injury. podcast-host

So... podcast-host

I think we can be wrong about the nature of a pain and badly wrong, and that can make it worse. podcast-host

So just to go back and answer your question a little bit. podcast-host

So that does add wrinkles and complications ultimately to these views, I think. podcast-host

I should be in podcast-host

Yeah, I mean, this is really an odd thing and it speaks to the stoic insight, right? podcast-host

The stoic intuition, which is that we can have these propositional attitudes, these beliefs that do change the qualia, the phenomena. podcast-host

Or do they? podcast-host

I mean, that's a paper. podcast-host

I'm sure it's been written many times, but do they and how do they do it? podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

They certainly make it worse, right? podcast-host

The child example you're giving. podcast-host

Yeah, I think we'd have to, our default view would have to be, yes, it does change the qualitative feel of the experience. podcast-host

It doesn't just add on other qualities, right? podcast-host

But anyway, that bears a lot of thinking about. podcast-host

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