[HN Gopher] I never stopped learning from Daniel Dennett
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       I never stopped learning from Daniel Dennett
        
       Author : dnetesn
       Score  : 125 points
       Date   : 2024-05-04 01:23 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | andsoitis wrote:
       | https://archive.is/2024.05.02-182316/https://nautil.us/i-nev...
        
         | mlv- wrote:
         | Or: https://github.com/bpc-clone?tab=repositories
        
       | PeterStuer wrote:
       | Only had the pleasure of lunching with him once as a young
       | researcher at an a-life workshop. The man really had that gentle
       | giant demeanor and impressed me as a true renaissance man with
       | great breath of knowledge.
       | 
       | ( And hi Anil, in case you stumble in here :)
        
       | cpeterso wrote:
       | Just yesterday I watched the film "Victim of the Brain", which
       | includes Daniel Dennett playing himself. The film is an odd
       | mashup of an interview with Douglas Hofstadter, ideas from
       | Dennett and Hofstadter's "The Mind's I", Stanislaw Lem's "The
       | Cyberiad", and a tour of MIT's AI lab in the 1980s.
       | 
       | In the film, Dennett's brain is transplanted to a vat so it (he?)
       | can control his body remotely using a radio transmitter (to
       | retrieve a subterranean ICBM).
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       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_of_the_Brain
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       | A (very low quality) copy of the film is available on YouTube:
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       | https://youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w
        
       | x3n0ph3n3 wrote:
       | I really appreciated Daniel Dennett's work, but I couldn't get
       | past his compatiblist take on free-will. It seemed to just try to
       | salvage a phrase for the sake of some fear of the mass's
       | psychological break from believing they don't have free will,
       | because people conflate that with not having a choice.
       | 
       | If folks haven't heard Sam Harris' take on the topic, I encourage
       | you to read his book or listen to one of his many podcast
       | episodes on the topic.
        
         | naasking wrote:
         | > I really appreciated Daniel Dennett's work, but I couldn't
         | get past his compatiblist take on free-will
         | 
         | I really don't understand people's objections to it. Free will
         | never had a denotational definition that everyone agreed on, it
         | had a set of vague, imprecise connotational meanings, and the
         | free will debate has always been about determining whether we
         | can devise a clear denotational definition that makes of agency
         | and how we reason about moral responsibility. We can, and
         | that's Compatibilism.
         | 
         | Moreover, studies I empirical philosophy have validated that
         | most lay people experimental on moral reasoning questions
         | largely agree with Compatibilist reasoning:
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         | https://philarchive.org/rec/ANDWCI-3
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         | So I think Dennett has been vindicated.
        
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