Daniel C. Dennett is Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
""Why, Dan," ask the people in AI, "do you waste your time conferring with those neuroscientist? They wave their hands about 'information processing' and worry about where it happens, and which neurotransmitter are involved, and all those boring facts, but they haven't a clue about the computational "
Chapter 13 reality of selves, in a metaphysically bizarre world.
Mind-body causation is in turn essential to each of these.
To be an “agent,” to “initiate actions,” is for us to act intentionally; and to act intentionally is for our mental beliefs and desires to cause our physical behavior.
To genuinely perceive something is for that physical thing to cause the mental perception.
To be rational is for one’s thou