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... Idea - Daniel Dennett (Non-fiction, Science, Philosophy)
7. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (Novel, Italian)
8. Consciousness Explained - Daniel Dennett (Non-fiction, Science, Philosophy)
9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (Novel, Western, American)
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel - ... ... & psychology:
110--Metaphysics:
120--Epistemology, causation & humankind:
126--The Self: Consciousness Explained
129--Origin & destiny of individual souls: Spook
130--Paranormal phenomena:
133--Parapsychology & occultism: In the Devil's Snare
... ... as a conscious being any better than does the standard naturalistic explanation.
Have you read Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained? It's probably a somewhat tired recommendation in discussions of this matter, but I've only just recently gotten around to reading it. It's ... ... Darwin
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Gödel
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett ... can't prove whether or not you have an "inner self" in your head, and neither can you -- but Daniel Dennett has argued (see Consciousness Explained) that you don't, in fact, have such an inner self, which he calls the Cartesian homunculus or something like that. I claim that something is ... Daniel C. Dennett's book Darwin's dangerous idea. Unfortunately in the imperfect Dutch translation, but that is because the translation costed only 15 Euro.
At this point, a mention of Daniel C. Dennett's work on consciousness and the concept of the soul might be appropriate. Consciousness Explained and, more specific to an evaluation of religion and the soul, Breaking the Spell.
As a spoiler, although an unsurprising one, Dennett finds no ... ... in some sense, Atheists and their allies suspect that the argument does have general force and power. I suppose Dawkins, Dennett and their friends might say that it has a sort of irrational force and power. That’s not how I would put it, of course, but the point stands. A meme is ... Well, if I am not mistaken, some people have interpreted the follow-on Freedom Evolves (to Consciousness Explained in #3) as repudiating the idea of free-will while others see it as reconciling it with evolution and science in general (and not by means of something totally at the wrong level of ... ... started reading about this sort of stuff a long time ago. As it is, the few ideas that I have in this area are based on Consciousness Explained and Consilience. The Emperor's New Mind might have influenced me, if I'd understood a blind word of what Roger Penrose was blathering on ... ... Leiber, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett
Favorite book(s) : The Malacia Tapestry, Consciousness Explained, Luminous, Sandman: Worlds' End, The Pastel City, The Complete Chronicles of Conan, The Swords of Lankhmar, The Scar, The Dragon in the ... I'm about halfway throught Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett. It's a good book, but not an easy read. Start the new year with a bang, I figure. ... Spell. A pretty good sermon to the choir, as per the current atheist hymnal-in-progress we're inundated with. I'll take Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea over that one, anyday.
Happy Holidays to all of you, and thanks for the great discussion! ... Truth, and Logic
111 Ontology -- Identität und Differenz
121 Epistemology -- On Certainty
126 The self -- Consciousness Explained
149 Other philosophical systems -- The Illusions of Postmodernism (started this one and I found Eagleton pretty irritating)
155 Differential & ... ... publishing: Let Me Finish
081--General Collections American: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
126--The Self: Consciousness Explained
133--Parapsychology & occultism: In the Devil's Snare
153--Mental processes and intelligence: Pressure is a Privilege
154--Differential and ... ... (A neuroscientist, but he addresses philosophical concerns well.)
Thomas Nagel's works on mind.
Daniel Dennett - Consciousness Explained, Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, Freedom Evolves
Ronald Dworkin - Law's Empire
Ian Hacking - The Social Constr ... ... It's learning processes that are heretible, not the form of specific behaviors.
The only book of Dennet's that I own is Consciousness Explained, which I have not yet read. Maybe I'll try to read Breaking the Spell, but descriptions of extraordinary claims like "This is definitely a ... ... with it, I had a serious case of "is that all there is?") ... also I was particularly peeved to read Daniel Dennett's Consciousness explained and find the author dismissing the "brain in a vat" theory as impossible for technological reasons ... If you get a full 13-digit code like 9 780316 180665 (with the extension 90000)-- that's Consciousness Explained-- you can just extract the ISBN 0-316-18066-1 from it directly. But when you get a 12-digit code like 0 37145 00799 1 (with extension 34701)-- that's The Knight-- there's no direct ...
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