Archive for the ‘Dennett’ Category
My study plans
After much cogitation, mainly about PhD possibilities, but also (very briefly) about whether I even want to complete the MSc, yesterday I reached some firm conclusions, which I’m publicising to confirm my commitment to them (ie for my own benefit even if nobody else is interested, which is entirely possible). The main development yesterday was [...]
February 13, 2010
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No wonder people don’t like Dennett
In Kinds of Minds (1996, p15), Daniel Dennett quotes Elaine Morgan: The heart-stopping thing about the new-born is that, from minute one, there is somebody there. Anyone who bends over the cot and gazes at it is being gazed back at. (1995, p99) Dennett responds: As an observation about how we human observers instinctively react [...]
December 19, 2009
Posted in: Dennett, differentials, philosophy 3 Comments
Some thoughts on Dennett
Added December 2009: This now needs a health warning. It was written before I knew anything about theory-theory and simulation theory, and though my basic stance has changed little if any, I’d now express some of these ideas quite differently. (Also, some of the internal links might not work.) In Susan Blackmore’s Conversations on Consciousness [...]
May 16, 2007
Posted in: Dennett, consciousness, differentials, information, philosophy 6 Comments