What, Why & How do we Know ?
As a fan of Dennett, this is an interesting review of Content and Consciousness Revisited, with Replies by Daniel Dennett. Just baffled that whilst “revisiting” his 1969 and 1991 works it obviously refers to later work by others, but not later works by Dan himself. Dennett does not engage with the details of Mandik’s argument but … Continue reading “Content and Consciousness Revisited, with Replies by Daniel Dennett”
If it looks designed, call it designed … by evolution. At root it’s all about (disembodied) information, and intelligence is evolved too. (Good to have that Q&A on gender cognitive differences [9:39 to 13:23 (*)] captured for posterity too.) Anyway – reported on this talk back in March 2015 – I was there. ==== [(*)Post Note … Continue reading “Dan Dennett on Information (& Evolution of “Intelligent Design”)”
I was fortunate to meet and hear Dan Dennett delivering Convergence: Information, Evolution, and Intelligent Design at The Royal Institution on Wednesday 25th March this week. I say fortunate because, despite being a huge fan of his as these pages will attest, and despite exchanging emails with him back in January when I noticed he … Continue reading “Daniel Dennett at The Royal Institution of Great Britain @Ri_Science”
Missed this last week on BBC World Service – Stephen Sackur interview with Daniel Dennett – introduced predictably as one of the “4 Horsemen of New Atheism“. Much confirmation of my own view that Dennett is the most considered and sophisticated thinker in this space. The four I have before ranked Dennett > Harris > … Continue reading “Dennett Hard Talk”
Since I’ve just started reading Bennett, Dennett, Hacker and Searle’s “Neuroscience & Philosophy” I thought I’d post a link to the coincidence in the earlier post today, as a current reminder to myself to post some review notes. My most considered reading of Bennett & Hacker was back in 2009. There I speculated on Dennett’s … Continue reading “Dennett on Hacker”
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve had an enforced hiatus from blogging due to the relocation to Oslo. Two things to note: (1) After doing some essential overhauls just before going offline in the US, I had added a “simpler” previous posts & archives link to the side-bar, and noted slowness in the rendering … Continue reading “Blog and Dennett Update”
Not read this yet. Thanks to Will Wilkinson for the link. Worth reading, for Dennett’s writing style. Nice non-committal reference to the Cold Fusion case, as other scientists rushed to prove / disprove. He concludes with “Since there is no content [in Intelligent Design Creationism], there is no “controversy” to teach about in biology class. … Continue reading “Dennett on IDC”
Made a start on my pile of Dennett original reading. Having realised recently I’m practically a pan-Darwinist, I thought I’d start on “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”. Skimmed it first, and realised I feel I practically know it already; so many of his chapters and witty headings having been quoted by others since 1995. The respect Dennett … Continue reading “The Socratic Dennett – Onward and Upward”