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Daniel Dennett spent more than fifty years arguing that there's no little theatre in your head where your experiences get shown to some inner you. Plenty of people think he was brilliant. Plenty think he explained consciousness away.
This is a friendly guide to the whole of his work: how he thought about minds, his take on Darwin, free will, religion, and the AI chatbots he lived just long enough to see. It explains the arguments properly instead of just listing his conclusions, and it's honest about where the author still isn't convinced. It's for anyone who's heard the name and wants to know what all the fuss was about.
Daniel Dennett spent more than fifty years arguing that there's no little theatre in your head where your experiences get shown to some inner you. Plenty of people think he was brilliant. Plenty think he explained consciousness away.
This is a friendly guide to the whole of his work: how he thought about minds, his take on Darwin, free will, religion, and the AI chatbots he lived just long enough to see. It explains the arguments properly instead of just listing his conclusions, and it's honest about where the author still isn't convinced. It's for anyone who's heard the name and wants to know what all the fuss was about.