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🔬Why #experiments aren't always necessary – ⚛️From #physics to #philosophyofmind🧠
In our #Zoomposium with #DanielDennett, one of the most influential thinkers in the philosophy of mind, we explore this very topic.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#Consciousness #Qualia #InsightsIntoPhysics #TheoryVersusExperiment #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #MultipleDraftsModel #Functionalism #Naturalism #Materialism #MindAndBrain
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• From Bacteria to Bach: Tracking the lineage of design from the earliest "Darwinian creatures" to the cultural and memetic evolution that allows for human creativity and the composition of complex works like those of J.S. Bach.The content provides an overview of how the "Great Divide" between mindless matter and mindful consciousness is bridged through the slow, recursive process of natural selection.
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This podcast breaks down the evolutionary transition from simple biological "competence" to the high-level "comprehension" found in human consciousness. Key topics include:• The Darwinian Inversion: Analyzing how "mindless" evolutionary algorithms create sophisticated biological machinery without the need for a conscious designer.
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CONSCIOUSNESS IS AN ILLUSION
This presentation explores the philosophical and biological frameworks of Daniel Dennett, specifically focusing on the concepts detailed in his work, From Bacteria to Bach and Back.
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Finally, we delve into the nature of consciousness, which Dennett describes as an evolved "user illusion," akin to a computer desktop. It's a simplified interface that allows us, as social animals, to manage our complex brain processes and explain our actions to others.#mind
#evolution
#consciousness
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🎧Unseen #Sound – How Your #Brain Processes Inner #Music🧠
In the #Zoomposium with #DanielDennett, it becomes clear:
#Consciousness is less of a “place” where things happen and more of a #process of #processing, #interpretation, and #simulation.📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#PhilosophyOfMind #ConsciousnessExplained #CognitiveScience #InnerExperience #MusicInTheHead #Representation #Qualia #Eliminativism #MultipleDraftsModel #Neuroscience #Naturalism
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🎧Ungesehener #Klang – Wie dein #Gehirn innere #Musik verarbeitet🧠
Im #Zoomposium mit #DanielDennett wird deutlich:
#Bewusstsein ist weniger ein „Ort“, an dem Dinge passieren, sondern vielmehr ein #Prozess der #Verarbeitung, #Interpretation und #Simulation.📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#PhilosophieDesGeistes #ConsciousnessExplained #KognitiveWissenschaft #InneresErleben #MusikImKopf #Repräsentation #Qualia #Eliminativismus #MultipleDraftsModel #Neuroscience #Naturalismus
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🪞Understanding #SelfReference and #Consciousness 🤔
The human #brain as a #selfreferentialsystem: An exciting perspective on consciousness!
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
#Neuroscience #Neurophilosophy #Cognition #PhilosophyOfMind #HardProblem #Epistemology #Subjectivity #SelfModel #MindBrainProblem #Reality #BCI #NeuralNetworks #ThomasMetzinger #DavidChalmers #AntonioDamasio #DanielDennett #GerhardRoth #Zoomposium
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🗽 Understanding #FreeWill – What does it really mean to make free choices? 💪
#FreeWill doesn’t require #chance or metaphysical magic. For #DanielDennett, the matter is surprisingly clear:
We are free when we are #selfdeterminedagents.📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Agency #Determinism #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #DecisionMaking #Zoomposium
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🧠 Die #Illusion des #Selbst – Wie wir unser #Ich wahrnehmen
Haben wir wirklich ein stabiles, einheitliches „Selbst“? Oder ist unser #IchGefühl etwas, das unser #Gehirn aus praktischen Gründen konstruiert?
Laut #DanielDennett in unserem #Zoomposium ist das Selbst vielleicht weniger eine feste Einheit als vielmehr eine #Benutzerillusion.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#ConsciousnessExplained #PhilosophyOfMind #Qualia #Eliminativismus #KognitiveNeurowissenschaften
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🍎 #Qualia erklärt – Können wir #subjektiveErfahrungen wissenschaftlich untersuchen? 🔬🤔
In dieser Folge von #Zoomposium sprechen wir mit #DanielDennett, einem der einflussreichsten #Philosophen des letzten Jahrhunderts, über eines der umstrittensten #Konzepte in der #Bewusstseinsforschung.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#QualiaExplained #PhilosophyOfMind #QualiaEliminativism #Zoomposium #CognitiveScience #KognitiveNeurowissenschaften #Materialismus #Naturalismus
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🧠⚖️ How our #brain makes #decisions & free will arises 🔍✨
In this #Zoomposium, #DanielDennett explains how #consciousness, #freewill, and decision-making can be understood from a #naturalisticperspective—and how insights from #cognitivescience and #philosophy help us better understand the #complexity of our #mind.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#PhilosophyOfMind #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Naturalism #Materialism
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🐸 #Frogseye: Simple #vision, complex behavior explained 🧠
The frog does not need a complete representation of reality, only what is relevant for successful action. #DanielDennett describes such mechanisms as “#userillusions”—functional simplifications that control #behavior.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Consciousness #Perception #Zoomposium
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🆓 Free Will – Why I Said Yes To This Interview🎙️
“I acted on my own free will. Nobody forced me.”
With these words, #DanielDennett opens our #Zoomposium on the question of free will – and sets the tone for a conversation that is as pointed as it is profound.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#FreeWill #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #FreeWillDebate #SelfAndIdentity #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #MultipleDraftsModel #Functionalism #Naturalism #Materialism
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The way to protect human freedom is to make sure that your society is one in which the benefits of being a member of the society are so tempting and so great that people will take responsibility in order for it to happen.
-- Daniel Dennett⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DanielDennett #Freedom
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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🧠 🗝️ #fMRI #BrainDecoding: Was neuronale Signale wirklich zeigen
Wir behandeln #fMRI-Bilder oft so, als wären sie Momentaufnahmen aus dem privaten Inneren des Gehirns. Aber wie #DanielDennett in unserem #Zoomposium erklärt, sind diese farbenfrohen Aktivierungskarten keine wörtlichen Bilder – sie sind metaphorische Rekonstruktionen.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #MultipleDraftsModel #RealPatterns #CognitiveScience #AI
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🧠 🗝️ #fMRI #BrainDecoding: What Neural Signals Really Show
We often treat #fMRIimages as if they were snapshots of the brain’s private inner theater. But as #DanielDennett explains in our #Zoomposium, these colorful activation maps are not literal images—they are metaphorical reconstructions.
📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#neurologyimaging #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #MultipleDraftsModel #RealPatterns #CognitiveScience #AI
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4 biggest ideas in #philosophy, with legend #DanielDennett
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#Consciousness – The Brain’s #UserIllusion, Explained!🧠✨
What if consciousness isn’t the “captain” of our #thoughts — but just the dashboard we use to navigate them?
📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#Zoomposium #DanielDennett #Consciousness #UserIllusion #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Qualia #FreeWill #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Embodiment #Functionalism #Materialism #Naturalism #MindAndMachine #Cognition #IllusionOfSelf
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⚡ Consciousness is costly 🧠
The brain is nature’s most energy-hungry organ.
With language and culture, it gave us civilization and planetary dominance – but at a high price.
Prof. Daniel C. Dennett warns: the same costly adaptation that built our world could also threaten our future.
📺 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#DanielDennett #Consciousness #Evolution #PhilosophyOfMind #Zoomposium
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Denne dokumentar om fri vilje med, desværre, nu afdøde Daniel Dennett er nu gratis på YT. Dog ingen DK tekster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tip-5EAN_2s&list=PL32597E44B3757A50&index=3 #philosophy #danieldennett
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Why Did It Take So Long to Understand #Evolution By #NaturalSelection?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8iBCly2JcI
In this conversation, host #NeildeGrasseTyson and guest #RichardDawkins reflect on #philosopher #DanielDennett’s view that #Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the greatest idea ever conceived. They explore why this insight took so long to arise in #human #history, despite centuries of #philosophical #reasoning.
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I had been driving in town a lot lately, how much I missed the beauty of a train commute in the company of a great read. 🙂
#PublicTransport #Sustainability #Books #DanielDennett #Singapore
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The way to protect human freedom is to make sure that your society is one in which the benefits of being a member of the society are so tempting and so great that people will take responsibility in order for it to happen.
-- Daniel Dennett⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DanielDennett #Freedom
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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Why #Religion Does more #Harm than #Good in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3pW_2E2BM
This video consists of #critical #arguments against #religious #doctrines and #ideologies, presented by #ChistopherHitchens, #DanielDennett, #LawrenceKrauss, #PeterSinger, #RichardDawkins & #RickyGervais.
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Trees
Sometimes I feel that Western philosophy, especially since the Enlightenment, has too often come to resemble the conifer plantations common to commercial forestry: useful, yes, and in their way productive, but almost barren, sterile. On the other hand, the philosophies surrounding Taoism – including Chan Buddhism and its Japanese descendant Zen – seem more like old growth forests, rich in natural diversity, fluid, resilient, fertile.
Of course it would be easy to romanticise such a distinction, as often seemed to happen during the early days of Zen’s growth in the West, and its influence on the Beat movement – Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums being the obvious example. But the partitioning of Western academic philosophy into e.g. metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and so on contrasts powerfully with more organic, experiential approaches.
I am no philosopher, needless to say, so in a sense I shouldn’t say such things; but I am someone most of whose intentional (c.f. Daniel Dennett’s idea of the intentional stance!) life has been given to a sort or sorts of contemplative practice, and so in a sense to the attempt at living out of some kind of philosophy or another. Over the years it has become clearer to me that “the Tao as an ontological ground… the One, which is natural, spontaneous, eternal, nameless, and indescribable… at once the beginning of all things and the way in which all things pursue their course” (Wikipedia) is just the simplest, least superstitious way to understand what is to be found in just sitting, apophatic meditation, or what you will. (The Sōtō Zen expression shikantaza, untranslatable as it is, is probably the closest I can get!)
So, sitting still, we can see that the self is not a thing but a pattern, not an object but a movement among the leaves, not other than the way things come and go. Just as sitting still is an entirely pointless thing to do, so too the Tao has no purpose. You couldn’t use it for anything, and yet it is before all that is, and holds the source of the farthest stars. Empty, all it is is inexhaustible.
#contemplative #DanielDennett #JackKerouac #philosophy #practice #shikantaza #Tao