Daniel Dennett Quotes


Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.
*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!


Citations

Dennett, Daniel C. Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Company, 1991, p. 406.

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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett
  • Born: March 28, 1942
  • Died: April 19, 2024
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Philosopher

Daniel Clement Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.