Interview with Dennett on the Mind

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1. 1:13:54   "What you are is the dance that information is doing in your body." Daniel Dennett

2. Superb.

3. Dennett thinks of himself as some maverick genius like Pierre Bayle or Darwin. He at least gives a superficial impression of being one. But I have a theory which takes some effort to see; and though I feel somewhat like the child in the Emperor's New Clothes, for the good of human knowledge I must express it: I think one could reduce him to a pompous gnome with a weak chin covered by tufts… And my pirate wore beige trousers (no rips), sandals, and no wooden leg, although admittedly the first I saw was his profile. Needless to say, he was a handsome devil. But suppose I saw no particulars or detail. What would this prove? What impressionist would not look askance at somone who quizzed him: "Tell me exactly how many stars there were in the sky you imagined?!" What astronomer could do more?

4. Thanks TMM, good talk.

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