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If that's literally all he wrote, that sounds more like a polite way of saying "you're wrong, and I have better things to do than argue with you about it."
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
If that's literally all he wrote, that sounds more like a polite way of saying "you're wrong, and I have better things to do than argue with you about it."
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoHe wrote more than that. I no longer have emails from that period, so I can't quote his full reply. It was friendly, and seemed to engage with the point I was making.
- prng2021 4y agoYea. "I suppose in some real sense"... What does that even mean?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoThat his book Consciousness Explained did not explain how there could be consciousness, but instead explained what we are conscious of. It's not that what the book does is not explaining consciousness, but it's only explaining it at a specific level, presupposing its existence and understandibility. Dennett was conceding that the explaining "the hard problem" was a real goal, and that his book did not tackle it.