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Born
Boston, Massachusetts
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Harvard
B.A. in philosophy -
Content and Consciousness
Originally his doctoral thesis on consciousness while attending University of Oxford.
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John Locke Lectures
Oxford University hosts academic lectures almost yearly. Only a few years did not have lectures since it's start in 1950. They are given by different guest speakers and various topics. They are considered very prestigious.
https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/daniel-dennett
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TED Conference Video
He was a speaker at a conference and discussed that our consciousness fools the us and therefore we can never understand what our consciousness is. Our brain completes something that was only suggested. He gives the of the incomplete cube with black circles behind it. It's not a complete cube but because it's suggested, our minds complete it and recognize it as a cube. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare -
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The Four Horseman
Dennet, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens published a series of books promoting Atheism and that the only path to truth was in science.
