Big Thinkers - Daniel Dennett [Philosopher] (2 of 3)

Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points.

This episode features Daniel Dennett. He is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement.

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Here are links to all 3 parts:
1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wetQwH9nY
2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y82d06KURA4
3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MisXHBUjnbo

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[dgdfhfghgfhgfgffjhj]

One reason "philosophy" has a sad reputation is because, unlike many other fields, people insist on repeatedly studying really old and failed parts of it.

In chemistry/physics/etc, we tend to dump the bad stuff, but in Philosophy it is preserved as dull literature.

Another reason is that "good" philosophy often becomes "common sense" AFTER some philosopher had to twist his brain and argue for it, and now everyone forgets that ideas like elements started out as philosophical conjecture.

[crambo0349]

Awesome!

[hamnose]

@TheSultan03 For your own sake you should have thoughts of your own. Go fuck yourself.

[TheSultan03]

@hamnose You are obviously an infantile ,mentally stunted, self inflated fool. Reply all you want, you are below me and I will be ignoring you going forward. For your own sake, you should acknowledge how stupid you come off.

[hamnose]

@TheSultan03 Yeah and not to put her down but Lady Gaga is more popular you fucking dingbat.

[TheSultan03]

@hamnose , The ancients believed that the brain was for cooling blood. "take a dump", sure makes you seem intelleictually inferior. I find that many people insult what they cannot fully grasp. If you feel you are more intelligent, and have more vivid and intresting ideas, write a book. If you have a tenth of the sales of any of their books you might have a leg to stand on.

[TheSultan03]

OMG!  They found K9! If they take him apart Doctor Who will be pissed.

[hamnose]

hmmph. It's common knowledge that the function of the brain is to filter data. It's been known since like, forever, that active vocabulary is limited to about 6000 words whether a person's a retard or a genius. Even salesmen know that personality is not unique. Nothing here to shake the mind. I take a dump on Kaku Dawkins Toffler and all the rest of you "big stinkers". This is pop philosophy for fanboys.

[Tom45931]

@jakepinoywolrd85 knowledge of how parts of the brain work are harnessed in useful things as diverse as auto-pilots, translation software, face recognition, airport security and tracking of planes to prevent collisions.

[Tom45931]

@jakepinoywolrd85- yes you can get away with saying a lot in philosophy, but Dennet is also an AI expert and knows a thing or two about neuroscience, what he was saying makes sense. You don't see a whole picture, you have a vague idea of it, and whenever you need to update your idea you just move your eyes. It is fairly simple to demonstrate this with blind-spot tests and other optical illusions.

[wishshewaswithme]

nice idea,i like it and am priverlaged to here it,but i may disagree,i believe im a star/angle/soul/bio-unit/cupid­..!!!

we have advance threw four diamentions conscouses And i believe my consconce

is in the mainframe thats why im here.

there only one reality and one consconce projected from the sub atomic thoughts of the stable parameters of uknown calculas secret letters and numbers man has not evolved he is a high-tech savage.

man is building GOD ,And one day i believe are leader will be HAL