{"id":198566,"date":"2024-10-30T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/daniel-dennett-the-magic-of-consciousnesswithout-the-magic"},"modified":"2024-10-30T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:24:51","slug":"daniel-dennett-the-magic-of-consciousnesswithout-the-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/daniel-dennett-the-magic-of-consciousnesswithout-the-magic","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness\u2026Without the Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/daniel-dennett-the-magic-of-consciousnesswithout-the-magic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel C. Dennett is one of the most influential philosophers of our time, perhaps best known in cognitive science for his multiple drafts (or \u201cfame in the brain\u201d) model of human consciousness, and to the secular community for his 2006 book <em>Breaking the Spell<\/em>. Author and co-author of two-dozen books, he\u2019s the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, where he taught our very own <em>Point of Inquiry<\/em> host Lindsay Beyerstein.<\/p>\n<p>Beyerstein and Dennett catch up to discuss Dennett\u2019s newest book, <em> From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds<\/em>. It\u2019s a fresh look at Dennett\u2019s earlier work on the subject of consciousness, taken in new directions as he seeks a \u201cbottom-up view of creation.\u201d Join Dennett and Beyerstein as they discuss the how\u2019s and why\u2019s of consciousness, not just from an evolutionary and neurological standpoint, but also through the lenses of computer science and human culture.<\/p>\n<p>New POI episodes and updates sent right to you. It\u2019s as easy as typing in your email. Your email isn\u2019t shared with anyone else. Just news and updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel C. Dennett is one of the most influential philosophers of our time, perhaps best known in cognitive science for his multiple drafts (or \u201cfame in the brain\u201d) model of human consciousness, and to the secular community for his 2006 book Breaking the Spell. Author and co-author of two-dozen books, he\u2019s the Austin B. Fletcher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198566","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=198566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}