Dennett’s Dead End
nick shackleton-jones,
aconventional,
Oct 03, 2019
I wouldn't exactly say this is simply Dennett's dead end, but it's as good a place as any for this longish - and convincing - argument about consciousness and reasoning. The core of the argument I think is a bit mis-stated: "Brains process experience affectively, computers process information digitally." What does this mean? "I suspect that simpler creatures have simpler feelings – but I can assure you that at no point is it necessary to introduce a new category of thing – 'thoughts' – distinct from feelings. No, allow me to be clear on this point: 'thoughts' are just a sophisticated type of feeling." I'm kind of OK with this, but wonder why he would use the word 'feeling' instead of the broader (and more accurate) word 'experience'.
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