Breaking the Spell
In his characteristically provocative fashion, Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, calls for a ... » Go
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Daniel Dennett on the Cosmological Argument
If something can be self-caused, why can’t the universe as a whole be the thing that is self-caused? This leads in various arcane directions, into ... » Go
Daniel Dennett on Selves as Systems
We now understand that the mind is not, as Descartes confusedly supposed, in communication with the brain in some miraculous way; it is the brain, ... » Go
Daniel Dennett on Eliminating the First Person
There’s a bi-modal distribution between people who think that any theory of consciousness that leaves out the first person is a hopeless theory, and those ... » Go
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
Darwin’s idea is very very simple; it goes like this. 1) Organisms pass their characteristics on to their descendants, which are mostly but not completely identical ... » Go
Daniel Dennet on the Illusion of Uncaused Acts
Whatever else we are, we are information-processing systems, and all information-processing systems rely on amplifiers of a sort. Relatively small causes are made to yield ... » Go