Thoughts on this book?

more like consciousness explained away :^)

>>9214412
what?

>>9214412
kek

>>9214282
>he ACTUALLY thinks human beings have qualitative experiences or the ability to introspect

HAHAHAHAHA

>Dennett
Complete and utter hack

>>9214412
/thread

>>9214848
???

We do, though. Qualitative experiments are a thing in science, too. Psychology was based on introspection.

>>9215196
there's a large part of society that unironically believes in souls and shit just let them embarrass themselves

I'm going to read it alongside a book on Paradox. Pretty excited for both desu

A grunt of Yaldabaoth.

>>9215216
>believes

Belief is the glue of the external material world.

Qualia exist

>>9216779
Define "exist"

>>9215216
what are you talking about man

>>9214282
This shit belongs on >>>/sci/.

A dead intelligence only would approve of this kind of bad faith vulgar materialism.

I can tell for one thing that Dennett may have never had any prominent or revelatory or shattering experiences in his life.

He's an odd confirmation of vulgar darwinism: a human monkey who treats himself as a line graph and flees from the encounter and battle of life, with nothing to show but inane allegories and boring ideas like 'intuition pumps'.

Dennett thinks he's being groundbreaking but he's really just fooling himself. It's noteworthy that he doesn't even consult world literature and music, which are the principal mediums of the transmission and of human experience in history, to make a point about consciousness and human experience.

No honest man who reads his books will be able to take it very seriously aside from a momentary 'aha!' in response to his wit and cunning again his most naive enemies. But there's no feeling to be had in putdowns and witticisms and thought-experiments caesured from actual life.

>>9216858
>intuition pumps
never read but I think my intuition pumps are acting my sides as we speak