Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

Although some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett, have disputed the validity of this distinction, others have broadly accepted it.

Theories proposed by neuroscientists such as Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio, and by philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, seek to explain consciousness in terms of neural events occurring within the brain.

Some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett in an essay titled The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, argue that people who give this explanation do not really understand what they are saying.

For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.

Daniel Dennett has argued for an approach he calls heterophenomenology, which means treating verbal reports as stories that may or may not be true, but his ideas about how to do this have not been widely adopted.

This position is sometimes referred to as eliminative materialism: the view that consciousness is a property that can be reduced to a strictly mechanical description, and that our experience of consciousness is, as Daniel Dennett describes it, a " user illusion ".

Daniel Dennett provides this extension to the " epiphenomena " argument.

Daniel Clement Dennett ( born March 28, 1942 ) is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Dennett says that he was first introduced to the notion of philosophy while attending summer camp at age 11, when a camp counselor said to him, " You know what you are, Daniel?

Daniel Dennett in 2008

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* Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr at The MIT Press

* Daniel C. Dennett at Internet Movie Database

* Scientific American Frontiers Profile: Daniel Dennett 2000-12-19

* Daniel Dennett on Information Philosopher

* Edge / Third Culture: Daniel C. Dennett

* Daniel Dennett multimedia files

* On Preaching and Teaching The Science Network interview with Daniel Dennett 2007-11-02

* The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies video interview with Daniel Dennett 2010-03-05 ( with transcript )

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Enrique Bolaños of the PLC was elected to the Nicaraguan presidency, defeating the FSLN candidate Daniel Ortega, by 14 percentage points.

Daniel Burston, however, has argued that overall the published works of Szasz and Laing demonstrate far more points of convergence and intellectual kinship than Szasz admits, despite the divergence on a number of issues related to Szasz being a libertarian and Laing an existentialist ; that Szasz employs a good deal of exaggeration and distortion in his criticism of Laing's personal character, and unfairly uses Laing's personal failings and family woes to discredit his work and ideas ; and that Szasz's " clear-cut, crystalline ethical principles are designed to spare us the agonizing and often inconclusive reflections that many clinicians face frequently in the course of their work ".

However, more recent scholarly opinion points out that the word in the Book of Daniel is siphonia ( from Greek siphon, reed ), and concludes that the bagpipe did not exist at so early a time, though the name of the " zampogna " could still have been derived from this word ( Marcuse 1975, 501 & 597 ).

Rookie Daniel " Boobie " Gibson scored a career-high 31 points in the series clincher, and the franchise won its first ever Eastern Conference Championship.

The group featured Lowery, Molla, Krummenacher and McDonald, along with several other musicians at various points, including guitarist David McDaniel, harmonica player Mike Zorn and violinist Daniel Blume.

Thus, Lester Grabbe points to a number of parallels between the Azazel narrative in 1 Enoch and the wording of Leviticus 16, including “ the similarity of the names Asael and Azazel ; the punishment in the desert ; the placing of sin on Asael / Azazel ; the resultant healing of the land .” Daniel Stökl also observes that “ the punishment of the demon resembles the treatment of the goat in aspects of geography, action, time and purpose .” Thus, the place of Asael ’ s punishment designated in 1 Enoch as Dudael is reminiscent of the rabbinic terminology used for the designation of the ravine of the scapegoat in later rabbinic interpretations of the Yom Kippur ritual.

Heatley's 103 points also tied Daniel Alfredsson for the team lead, together surpassing Alexei Yashin's franchise record of 94 points in a season ( achieved in 1998 – 99 ).

Autistic savant Daniel Tammet points out that the twins provided the matchbox and may have counted its contents in advance, noting that he finds the value of 111 to be " particularly beautiful and matchstick-like.

Teammate Daniel Sedin had 84 points, marking the first time in eight seasons that Näslund did not lead the team in scoring.

Playing parts of the season on a line with Daniel and Henrik Sedin, he recorded 25 goals and 55 points.

* In the opening scene, one actor points to Daniel, calling him " a much better actor ", which echoes John the Baptist foretelling the arrival of Jesus the Messiah.

Daniel recorded 12 points over 45 games during his rookie season.

Daniel then added 12 points in 13 playoff games as Modo advanced to the Le Mat Trophy Finals, where they lost to Brynäs IF.

During the 1999 – 2000 season, Daniel finished second in team scoring with 45 points in 50 games, two points behind Henrik.

In the 2000 playoffs, Daniel added a team-leading eight goals and 14 points.

Over 82 games, Daniel increased his production to 18 goals and 54 points.

When NHL play resumed in 2005 – 06, Daniel returned to the Canucks and scored 71 points.

Daniel struggled to produce offensively in the playoffs, however, managing five points over 12 games as the Canucks were eliminated by the Anaheim Ducks in the second round.

Daniel recorded 74 points in 2007 – 08, as the Canucks missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.

The following season, Daniel recorded 31 goals and 82 points, tying Henrik for the team lead in points.

Daniel finished the season with a career-high 56 assists and 85 points despite playing an injury-shortened 63-game campaign.