Daniel Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind | Closer To Truth Chats

RIP Daniel Dennett 🕊️

Rest in peace, Daniel Dennett

Attitude is spirit. I'll never forget him saying that. Thanks, Dan. Your spirit lives on the attitudes that embody curiosity, free will, wisdom, and everything else that matters. Thank you thank you thank you.

Great to see Dan still firing. He is the reason I continued to pursue philosophy, despite often feeling exasperated by the mysterian types. For me, it is Dennett's meta-philosophy that deserves the most praise. Ideas like chmess and niftyism are just as important as the intentional stance. Thank you, Dan, for keeping it real.

Rest in peace Daniel sir

I first read Dennett thirty years ago. It was an enormous leap forward in the understanding of mental processes.

Thank you for having Dennet on and having such a conversation.

Dan Dennett is a real gem. He has some wonderful insights into how to think about things and how to explore the universe.

Sitting around a chair and eating an orange admiring my house backside watching the sun on december 23 extremely phenomenal thanks.

With Daniel Dennet you get much closer to the truth,thanks for this conversation.

I admire Dennett for his brilliance and articulation.

I'm grateful to exist and that great minds like yours exist, I take none of it for granted. Thank you.

What a fantastic conversation! Thank you so much

Dennet's philosophical prowess is an island of rationality, a fortress of reason, in a sea of supernatural hypotheses.

Please, kindly consider a session like this with Robert Sapolsky.

Thank you for fantastic questions and fantastic answers 🧠

2:25 DD “The great Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb once said, ‘If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.’ ” I’m still laughing — that last word ”well” adds such a delicious twist! Daniel Dennett, your quote of Hebb aptly describes not only philosophy but the last 50 years of theoretical physics. Robert, you and Professor Dennett have, at long last, given me something good to say about string theory: Witten and his followers have done it very, very well!

Philosopher Dr. Daniel Dennett on why Consciousness (some call it Soul) is hard to describe or understand: "We're in fact remarkably ignorant about what's going on in our brain that makes all of Consciousness things happen, and so the first person point of view is not a privileged one, it's rather under-previlaged. And that's a good thing for us because if you had to try to understand everything that's going on in your brain, then you wouldn't have time to do anything else". Amazing expression; so basically, if top scientists use improved scanning & advanced sensors, they will be able to decipher what consciousness is & how it works - unless our brains include a tuner that receives thoughts from distant or invisible beings, or Consciousness is a multiple things like in the suitcase analogy. Although I think this won't happen in the near future, I'm extremely excited but also somewhat reserved.

Finally someone closer to the truth.

A truly fascinating discussion. Definitely made me smarter than yesterday.