{"id":1610,"date":"2009-03-16T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:00","slug":"arent-we-choosing-the-cause-by-entering-the-world-through-the-rear-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/arent-we-choosing-the-cause-by-entering-the-world-through-the-rear-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Aren’t we choosing the cause by entering the world through the rear door .."},"content":{"rendered":"

… 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<\/a> he talks about our post-hoc reasoning and Darwin’s role in this game.
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One of our most important living philosophers, Dan Dennett<\/a> is best known for his provocative and controversial arguments that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes in the brain<\/strong>. He argues that the brain\u2019s computational circuitry fools us into thinking we know more than we do, and that what we call consciousness \u2014 isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Remark: Our Biestmilch universe<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[582,581,60,580,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}