#danieldennett — Public Fediverse posts

🔬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

🔬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

🔬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

🔬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

🔬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

🎧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

🪞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

🗽 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

🧠 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

🧠⚖️ 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

🆓 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

🧠 🗝️ #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

🧠 🗝️ #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

#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

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