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.

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 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 is a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement.

Dennett's sister is the investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett.

As of January 2012, Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, University Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies ( with Ray Jackendoff ) at Tufts University.

While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.

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In Freedom Evolves, Daniel Dennett argues that a no-free-will conclusion is based on dubious assumptions about the location of consciousness, as well as questioning the accuracy and interpretation of Libet's results.

In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, philosopher Daniel Dennett is especially critical of Gould's presentation of punctuated equilibrium.

: There is no such thing as philosophy-free science ; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination .— Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995.

Two other books, How the Mind Works ( 1997 ) and The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), broadly surveyed the mind and defended the idea of a complex human nature which comprises many mental faculties that are adaptive ( and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many disputes surrounding adaptationism ).

The term greedy reductionism, coined by Daniel Dennett, is used to criticize inappropriate use of reductionism.

The article is included in the books Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind ( ISBN 0-631-19678-1 ) and A Devil's Chaplain.

* Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong ; however, treating people, animals, and even computers as if they had beliefs is often a successful strategy-The major proponents of this view, Daniel Dennett and Lynne Rudder Baker, are both eliminativists in that they believe (?

Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain.

So, as Dennett wryly notes, he is committed to the belief that we are all zombies — adding that his remark is very much open to misinterpretation.

Dennett claims that our brains hold only a few salient details about the world, and that this is the only reason we are able to function at all.

Daniel Dennett has derisively referred to certain types of thought experiments such as the Chinese Room experiment as " intuition pumps ", claiming they are simply thinly veiled appeals to intuition which fail when carefully analyzed.

Daniel Dennett has since suggested that people that believe in the supernatural could choose to be referred to as supers.

To address the question of the hard problem, or how and why physical processes give rise to experience, Dennett states that the phenomenon of having experience is nothing more than the performance of functions or the production of behavior, which can also be referred to as the easy problems of consciousness.

Dennett referred to the notes as " President Roosevelt's Secret Pact With Japan ".

Dennett attended Phillips Exeter Academy and spent one year at Wesleyan University before receiving his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W. V. Quine.

Daniel Dennett countered that for some things, such as money, baseball, or consciousness, one cannot have the thing without also having the concept of the thing.

In reality however, other musicians had input to the record, including producer Ian Stanley, with continued playing and songwriting contributions from Neil Sutton and Russell Dennett ; and Oakey co-writing one track with Jo Callis.

) that one would suppose one would have in the same circumstances ( Dennett 1987, 343 ).

Dennett gives his definition of determinism on page one: All physical events are caused or determined by the sum total of all previous events.

Dennett suggests that we can have another kind of free will, a type of free will which we can be perfectly happy with even if it does not give us the power to act in more than one way at any given time.

As Dennett says, " Skinner proclaimed that one simple iteration of the fundamental Darwinian process — operant conditioning — could account for all mentality, all learning, not just in pigeons but in human beings.

" Daniel Dennett, in his book Breaking the Spell, suggests that if non-naturalists are concerned with this connotation of the word bright, then they should invent an equally positive sounding word for themselves, like supers ( i. e., one whose worldview contains supernaturalism ).

Various philosophers have criticized this view, Daniel Dennett being one of the best-known.

Dennett argues that there is no principled basis for picking one of these theories over the other, because they share a common error in supposing that there is a special time and place where unconscious processing becomes consciously experienced, entering into what Dennett calls the " Cartesian theatre ".

An improved rocket was invented by John Dennett in 1826 ; the one now in use was devised by Colonel Boxer in 1855.

* Edward George Dennett, Gloucestershire cricketer, one of the best bowlers never to play Test cricket

George Dennett ( in full Edward George Dennett and sometimes erroneously just Edward Dennett ) was a left arm spinner for Gloucestershire between 1903 and 1926, and from his figures could be considered one of the best bowlers never to play Test cricket.

In his first season, despite exceptionally helpful pitches due to a very wet summer, Dennett fared only moderately, but in 1904, he rose remarkably rapidly to one of the leading bowlers of the day.

Her ex-husband Hartley Dennett, his partner Margaret Chase, and her husband Dr. Chase extended an public invitation to Mary Dennett to, as one newspaper put it, " adopt the creed of harmonious love and form a quadrangle " with the three of them.

Dennett repeatedly lobbied individual senators in person for a year before she found one willing to sponsor the bill, Senator H. Heisler Ball, a former practicing physician.

A related principle is the principle of humanity, which states that we must assume that another speaker's beliefs and desires are connected to each other and to reality in some way, and attribute to him or her " the propositional attitudes one supposes one would have oneself in those circumstances " ( Daniel Dennett, " Mid-Term Examination ," in The Intentional Stance, p. 343 ).

The LFA bought a one-room cabin similar to the one reconstructed by Dennett.

In a video entitled " The Four Horsemen " starring Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett, Dennett refers to consciousness-raising amongst philosophers regarding the distinction between puzzles and problems as a better way of referring to " mysteries ".

* " The Four Horsemen ", an informal discussion on the " New Atheism " held in 2007 and its proponents: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.