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Daniel Dennett

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    Life

    Daniel Dennett was born in Boston, MA. With multiple degrees under his belt, Daniel still to this day is pushing his expansion for knowledge to new levels. Dennett is not only a philosopher he is a scientist dealing with the cognitive side of humans. He does this by using biology with the help of new-age computers.
  • Harvard

    Daniel Dennett received a bachelor's in philosophy from Harvard. After Harvard, he continued on to Oxford.
    The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Daniel C. Bennett. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-C-Dennett
  • Brainstorms

    Brainstorms
    Daniel talks through 17 essays and explains his views on Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.
    Brainstorms. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/brainstorms
  • Brainchildren

    Brainchildren
    Once again a collection of his essays this time explaining the brain as a complex machine. Also, Daniel explains his views on artificial intelligence.
    Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100281.Brainchildren
  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back

    From Bacteria to Bach and Back
    This time Daniel uses biology with the help of a computer to show how we could have came from natural selection.