Daniel Dennett, fiery atheist philosopher who saw human brains as ‘programmes’ – obituary

Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | April 19, 2024 | Telegraph Obituaries

[grey_whiskers]

Daniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of Darwinism and one of the most virulent controversialists on the academic circuit...

[grey_whiskers]

Where's that "Grim Reaper and the Claw Machine" meme?

[No name given]

Well, it sure looks like Daniel is wrong about his beliefs now.

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*PING*

[Taxman]

Now, he knows!

[A strike]

Although grieving for him,
I’ve got to admit his statement in the Telegraph article on his confidence : “It helps being right.” kicks @ss to the nth degree.

[grey_whiskers]

Whoops, just noticed the title.

“Fiery” ...

[Right Brother]

🤔😁

[Joe 6-pack]

Death cures atheism.

[little jeremiah]

The three most evil men in recent history whose views poisoned the world:

Darwin
Marx
Freud

[Midwesterner53]

fiery atheist Most atheists end up fiery.

[Getready]

Everything has to be explained in terms of natural processes...except his ideas....
I wonder how he understands the natural processes so well...while the physicists argue over the basic structures of matter and energy under the shadow of the uncertainty constraints of Heisenberg...

[Taxman]

That it does!

[.44 Special]

Dennett saw brains as a programme. I guess his brain just did a:
BranchUnconditional, Endit
Endit, Halt

[grey_whiskers]

Or, in the words of that computer instruction, “Halt and catch fire.”

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Regarding dead Dennett, I read his "Explaining Consciousness" many years ago, which manged to purport with wordy and sometimes interesting anecdotes that he would "explain consciousness." He came nowhere near to doing so. It was the academic version of what is today called "click bait."

Additionally and very under-reported, he stated his goal was to rid the world of religion. As with the old joke of Nietzsche and God, wherein the "God is dead" writer died, Dennett saw none of his true goals realized. He was a fancy talking fraud, in the end.

This is a small example of what has been happening in academia and publishing for decades now. BS with footnotes.

I tossed his book years back, by the way. Kept the Good Book.

[1756-L85E]

How does his dying make his beliefs wrong?