Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?

Thanks for what you do except for one thing. What the hell have you got a known conman like Al Gore in your series for? How can you have a genius like Dan Dennet and good guys like Freeman Dyson, alongside a traitor like Al Gore?

Very bad taste. I suppose on one level you can walk on water after this great service you have performed. But you ought to excise this fool.

The plane was scary.. XD Such an important thing on a plane and yet i missed it until he told me :P

How interesting!

I never saw the next to the last one, and I only saw a few of them after he pointed them out.

When I watch this it brings the idea of feral children to mind. I think a BIG part of consciousness is that we have passed a collective knowledge down from generation to generation. As generations gain new knowledge is added to the current, and the unimportant/out of mind is left out. "We" are as much a part of one consciousness as we our conscious ourselves.

Anyone feelin' this?

i saw them all within 4 secconds at the most. but i was watching certian places as it flashed

likewise. i think it's the best algorithm

I don't think he explained anything about consciousness, but instead about the senses-visual-which it would be a very small part of consciousness.With his explanation you would think you'd understand counsciousness a little bit better,this is a very poor lecture of how the brain processes our senses, counsciousness should be explain as a whole [senses].How would this explanation apply to a blind person ?...we already know that our brain discards or compensates information

He was not trying to explain consciousness (as if it could be done in 20 minutes). He was illustrating that merely being conscious does not provide an understanding of how consciousness works. He said that.

Consciousness cannot be explained as a whole. There is no central processor in the brain and no area of the brain where it all comes together. Consciousness is just the name we give to separate phenomena. You should read Dennet's Consciousness Explained.

Do you know that we don't 'discard' information? Let's just say you have no idea about what Dennett is talking about

alright then...I, on the other hand, believe that what he is doing is really trying to introduce some astonishing idea to most, without using amazing new stuff