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“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.” This was said by Daniel Dennett, a world-renowned American Philosopher who sadly passed away on 19 April. He certainly followed his own word and left a legacy of his work on consciousness, free will, ethics and artificial intelligence.
5 days ago · A stanza in the Buddhist text Dhammapada states: “There never was, there never will be, nor does there exist now a person who is wholly blamed or wholly praised.”. The obituaries for materialist philosopher and Darwinist – a few would say ‘ultra Darwinist’ – Daniel Dennett, who died on 19 April, exemplify the essential correctness of the Buddhist text.
I am curious about what happens to consciousness when the world splits in MWI. I found an old forum that was wondering if when worlds branch, one’s conciousness only follows one path meaning that everyone is in their own world with unconscious copies of other people. Most people in the comments seemed to disagree with the notion that MWI is ...
2 days ago · The philosopher Daniel C. Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of 82, according to the obituary in The New York Times (April 19, 2024), which described him as “one of the most widely read and debated American philosophers, whose prolific works explored consciousness, free will, religion and evolutionary biology.”.
5 days ago · Key points. Disembodied machines increasingly seem to know us better than we know ourselves. We have forgotten the old call for self-reflection and introspection. We can learn to see how our ...
3 days ago · Daniel C. Dennett: Qualia are virtual, and none the worse for it Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism This talk is part of a workshop on “To be or not to be… conscious.
4 days ago · Daniel Dennett obituary: ‘New atheism’ philosopher who sparked debate on consciousness. Obituary 17 MAY 24. Analysis of dozens of ancient genomes reveals that close encounters between the two ...
