{"id":188290,"date":"2024-04-28T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/an-epitaph-for-daniel-dennett-philosopher-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2024-04-28T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T17:30:22","slug":"an-epitaph-for-daniel-dennett-philosopher-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/an-epitaph-for-daniel-dennett-philosopher-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"An Epitaph for Daniel Dennett, Philosopher of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-epitaph-for-daniel-dennett-philosopher-of-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is <i>consciousness<\/i> nothing more than an <i>illusion<\/i>? That idea defined the work of Daniel Dennett (1942\u20132024) <\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/john-horgan7\/\">John Horgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate <i>consciousness<\/i>, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more conscious.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is consciousness nothing more than an illusion? That idea defined the work of Daniel Dennett (1942\u20132024) By John Horgan Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more conscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}