Daniel Dennett
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American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist (1942 to 2024), co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University; author of…
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17 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The brain is not a well-organized hierarchical control system but much more like anarchy with some elements of democracy (opens korrents.com)
“We're beginning to come to grips with the idea that your brain is not this well-organized hierarchical control system where everything is in order, a very dramatic vision of bureaucracy. In fact, it's much more like…”
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A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness (opens korrents.com)
“As soon as that happens, you have room for cooperation to create alliances, and I suspect that a more free-wheeling, anarchic organization is the secret of our greater capacities of creativity, imagination, thinking…”
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Civilization may be becoming hyper-fragile through dependence on technologies that are not as reliable as they should be (opens korrents.com)
“I am quite concerned that we're becoming hyper-fragile as a civilization, and we're becoming so dependent on technologies that are not as reliable as they should be, that have so many conditions that have to be met for…”
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The brain is not a well-organized hierarchical control system but much more like anarchy with some elements of democracy (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Word and Object (opens rcmnd.app)
“I arrived at Harvard the year that Word and Object—the first book on my list—came out.”
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Beyond Concepts (opens rcmnd.app)
“But in Beyond Concepts Millikan carries it much further, and she goes all the way to the metaphysics, to the ontology.”
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Word and Object (opens rcmnd.app)