Daniel Dennett is Not A Believer.

Tune in til next time, when we discuss why Daniel Dennett is not a philosopher, theologian, or logician.
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check out jerry fodor's paper on dennett's intentional stance: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.144.951&rep=rep1...

(I'm joking. Unless you'd want me to do it.)

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Education

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• legodesi
• daniel dennett
• instrumentalism
• realism
• intentional states
• beliefs
• nihilism
• stupid
• theowarner

[leawardseif]

@Legodesi.

So to be clear: are you claiming that Dennett cannot really believe that beliefs are not real, because to do so would be self refuting?

[legodesi]

@leawardseif

sorry i only got to this question now. to answer your question, no, i'm not saying that dennett cannot really believe that beliefs are not real. i haven't argued that it's self-refuting.

[orochileona]

Dawkins is not a scientist, and Dennett is an idiot, period.

[unseenstrings]

@npa992, to believe something is not true is still a belief, even if it happens to be empirically based. If experience causes me to develop the perception that the sun is round, I will likely believe the sun is round based on that perception. That is the reason I have stated, "What one perceives, one believes." However, I realize we all have cognitive biases. And that awareness helps me deny the belief bubbling up from the cognitive biases of perception. Thus, we TEND to believe what we perceive

[npa992]

@unseenstrings I think you have a misconception of what belief is. Belief is a state of mind where you hold a proposition to be true. Thus, if hold the proposition that the Earth revolves around the Sun to be true. I believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun. This is empirically based, but it still classifies as a belief

[manutdfan4321]

i miss your vids :(

[pulelovesme]

can i eat you?

[legodesi]

@newexperiment

dennett's thought experiment was about a scientist with a complete science - a complete knowledge of how our brains work. he says the scientist does not know we have beliefs. then you tell me it's because we don't know enough - obviously, you haven't read it.

[newexperiment]

@legodesi I did, you have deduced something that does not follow. Sorry.

[WayOfTheBastard]

@legodesi What theory would I replace it with? Panpsychism? Jaegwon Kim and his essays on causal closure has limited my possibilities greatly. I am open minded, but I the debate thus far hasn't left me with many options.

[unseenstrings]

Now as far is the super-advanced alien race finding this thing called belief in the brain: I suspect he is saying in other words what I have said in the past. When a religious person holds a particular perception based on his life's experiences, we call the perception "belief." Yet, "belief" is a bias term for describing development of particular perception. See, when a scientist or atheist holds a particular perception based on his life's experiences we call it scientifically or logically based