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Is the ‘real you’ a special substance that is nonphysical and immortal? Most regular people would agree, but most scientists would not. What are you? A body alone that is dead forever once it dies? A soul temporally inhabiting a body? A body unified with a nonphysical entity of some kind? What some theologians think may surprise you.
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Daniel Clement Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist and is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor at Tufts University.
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Daniel is a organic boogie man.
Interview with a necklace. Guy must be limber! 🤣
Perhaps all knowledge is founded on questions. Every being can have questioned asked about it. If the mind asking the questions is great enough, every question about every being can be answered.
How can the claim be made that the process is purposeless when the process is founded on laws (inherent properties and potentialities of things)?
I need Robert Lawrence Kuhn to talk to spiritual musicians. How dare he skip the insight of the soul in music?
Do souls exist would be the question to settle before asking this one.
AAh, it is indeed refreshing to listen to this kind of critical thinking output, I love Charles Darwin, he's one of the original surviving members of the "The Four Horsemen" and others still here; Professor Richard Dawkins and the terrific Ben Stiller…Unfortunately the incomparable brilliant polymath Christopher Hitchens is no longer with us.
C’mon Letterman, we all know it’s you!
gospod filozof..da si zapomnite..jaz sem dala veliko vspodudo za vas da pomagate politikom,drzavi bilo kaksni..zato bodite malo mirni kaj govorite,,kar precej se motite
"Recreating the mistakes of Hume, Mill…." This is like the inverse version of damning with faint praise. I can hardly imagine any thinkers whose mistakes I'd be more proud of recreating, and I think we should keep in mind that modern, phD-educated philosophers disagree on what counts as mistakes by these great thinkers of the past.
I had a soul but sold it to some guy who collects them. Wasn’t using it anyway…
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I learned about free floating reasons when i was introduced to games, as a child O/
Later i figured out it was called game theory.
A PERSON IS NOT REAL SO…START AGAIN.
This enquiry has been answered by Vedanta beautifully in mathematical format.
Dennett is the guy who suggested that the moniker "brights" should be adopted for those who think like him (materialists who claim to justify their materialism scientifically). Nor did any excess of intellectual modesty weigh down his choice of title for his book Consciousness Explained. And you folks probably thought there was such a thing as the "hard problem" of consciousness, silly you! Turns out Dennett has it all tied up with a neat little bow. Dennett has solved the hard problem! You just have to be as clever as Dennett, then you'll get it and be a "bright" like him!
In fact the hard problem of consciousness is not just hard, but impossible, because consciousness cannot be derived from matter. And that irreducibility of consciousness does not require dualism, as one might think in listening to Dennett.
You don't have to research every philosopher to know what the mistakes are. You just have to know what the mistakes are. That is why knowledge of fallacies and what makes a correct argument is so important.
Knowledge of Descartes, or any other philosopher, is not going to teach you how to think. That will only teach you to perpetuate mistakes that you have not identified yet.
I hope he is not far from the Kingdom of God
Why must philosophy always take a backseat to science?
Soul, god, the devine are all human concepts. Fear and curiosity have created human culture.
Dan the soulless ape. Ok pal. And I’m supposed to take you seriously?
Dennet is wrong but I ain't mad at him.
Yes.
Proclaiming to be wise but clearly a fool! I mean that in the nicest way God could put it.
He doesn't take precognition into his observations. The brain isn't the controlling entity. It's outside. All philosophical arguments will be silenced and the hypocrites will be ashamed. Hypocrites because they refuse to prove all things and hold to that which is good. The Earth is on foundations and can not be moved. That's eternal truth, and you lose that lie that you thought you had as truth.
"Do persons have souls?" …some do.
This guy is just stupid .
It was good and refreshing to hear Dan move a away from his atheistic hobby horse and talk about something else.
Asking that to Dennet is like asking Hitler "what is a jew?"