Daniel Dennett

Also known as Daniel C Dennett, Daniel C. Dennett, Daniel Clement Dennett III, Daniel Clement Dennett

American philosopher (1942–2024)

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Daniel Dennett was an American philosopher who studied how the mind works, particularly focusing on consciousness and whether machines could think like humans. His ideas have been influential in debates about what makes us human and how to understand intelligence in both biological and artificial systems.

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“We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.”
“We now understand how very complex and even apparently intelligent phenomena, such as genetic coding, the immune system, and low-level visual processing, can be accomplished without a trace of consciousness. But this seems to uncover an enormous puzzle of just what, if anything, consciousness is for. Can a conscious entity do anything for itself that an unconscious (but cleverly wired up) simulation of that entity couldn't do for itself?”
“I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.”
“Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”
“Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.”
“Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.”

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Official website: sites.tufts.edu/cogstud/daniel-dennett
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Commons category: Daniel Dennett
date of birth: 1942-03-28
birth name: Daniel Clement Dennett III
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name in native language: Daniel Clement Dennett
date of death: 2024-04-19

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Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Dennett was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett was a member of the editorial board for The Rutherford Journal and a co-founder of The Clergy Project.