{"id":188638,"date":"2024-05-03T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/10-brilliant-insights-from-daniel-dennett"},"modified":"2024-05-03T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T03:27:11","slug":"10-brilliant-insights-from-daniel-dennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/10-brilliant-insights-from-daniel-dennett","title":{"rendered":"10 Brilliant Insights from Daniel Dennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/10-brilliant-insights-from-daniel-dennett.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Dennett, who died in April at the age of 82, was a towering figure in the philosophy of mind. Known for his staunch physicalist stance, he argued that minds, like bodies, are the product of evolution. He believed that we are, in a sense, machines\u2014but astoundingly complex ones, the result of millions of years of natural selection.<\/p>\n<p>Dennett wrote more than a dozen books, some of them aimed at a scholarly audience but many of them directed squarely at the inquisitive non-specialist\u2014including bestsellers like <em>Consciousness Explained<\/em>, <em>Breaking the Spell<\/em>, and <em>Darwin\u2019s Dangerous Idea<\/em>. Reading his works, one gets the impression of a mind jammed to the rafters with ideas. As Richard Dawkins put it in a blurb for Dennett\u2019s last book, a memoir titled <em>I\u2019ve Been Thinking<\/em>: \u201cHow unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Dennett, who died in April at the age of 82, was a towering figure in the philosophy of mind. Known for his staunch physicalist stance, he argued that minds, like bodies, are the product of evolution. He believed that we are, in a sense, machines\u2014but astoundingly complex ones, the result of millions of years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188638","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=188638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}