… without even realizing it? Dan Dennet, philosopher and cognitive scientist, opens our eyes, and makes us wondering why the heck we allocate causes in such a decisive way. Our Western rational tradition created a reality = world of evidences and reasoning, endless lines of cause-relationships. Doubts are sparsely spread along these lines. Dan Dennet shows us how arbitrarily the cause-relation loop is punctured and straightened out by us into a line with a starting and an endpoint. On TED he talks about our post-hoc reasoning and Darwin’s role in this game.
One of our most important living philosophers, Dan Dennett is best known for his provocative and controversial arguments that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes in the brain. He argues that the brain’s computational circuitry fools us into thinking we know more than we do, and that what we call consciousness — isn’t.
Remark: Our Biestmilch universe is very much built on thoughts and reasoning like those of Dan Dennet, thanks to him. It is always encouraging to listen to poeple of his kind.
