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They're shallow, but there's such a high density of questionable statements in the first few pages, it's a red flag. I love speculative science and reading abou
by the__alchemist 5y ago
They're shallow, but there's such a high density of questionable statements in the first few pages, it's a red flag. I love speculative science and reading about potentially new and/or controversial ideas... but it only makes sense if I can trust the author on more concrete topics.
> "I think, therefore I am". Philosophers today are less concerned with proving one's own existence as a thinking thing (perhaps because they have decided that Descartes settled that matter quite satisfactorily)
- jiocrag 5y agoI think you’re misinterpreting. Dennet is setting up to question Descartes’ assumption, which has been “accepted,” but he spends the first 50 or so pages of the book breaking down. I’m not saying this book has all the answers about consciousness (quite the contrary — it has been criticized for not really “explaining consciousness” as the title implies), but I think you would find the studies and observations about how our minds generate “drafts” of reality quite compelling.