Daniel Dennett and science of consciousness
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If you're interested in this sort of thing (and you should be), a great article from the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/daniel-dennetts-science-of-...
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Thanks for the link. I was
Thanks for the link. I was reading "Where Am I?" just last night.
Dennett is a stud.
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Fascinating guy, apparently a
Fascinating guy, apparently a real polymath...
"Dennett is an avid sailor; in 2003 he bought a boat, trained his students to sail, and raced with them in a regatta … “Until I met Dan,” [philosopher Nicholas] Humphrey told me, “I never had a philosophical hero. Then I discovered that not only was he a better philosopher than me; he was a better singer, a better dancer, a better tennis player, a better pianist. There is nothing he does not do.”"
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And he makes his own Calvados
And he makes his own Calvados!
Be still my heart.
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Good read. Not just
Good read. Not just awareness but willingness to engage what is experienced through the senses completes consciousness.
To me anyway. Also agree language is the great separator.
Home made liqueur would help too.