Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Hear Hear! Dennett wants to be correct by making the Hard Problem "go away". that is the most lazy way of solving the problem: making a long winded wand-waving argument that consciousness is an illusion and then failing to explain the persistence of the stipulated illusion! On Thu, J

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2014, at 04:19, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25289 Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co- Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Intuition Pumps And again Cheers Niloc

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2014, at 08:11, meekerdb wrote: On 1/15/2014 7:20 PM, LizR wrote: Ah, well, I would expect Dennett to say that! On 16 January 2014 16:19, Colin Geoffrey Hales > wrote: http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25289 I think Dennett is right. As soon as we're able to build robots t

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-16 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: > Colin, Liz, > > What do you find wrong with what Dennett said? > I didn't actually say I found anything wrong with it, just that I would expect him to want to drop the hard problem. I said that because he's wanted to for decades now, and indeed beli

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-15 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 7:20 PM, LizR wrote: Ah, well, I would expect Dennett to say that! On 16 January 2014 16:19, Colin Geoffrey Hales > wrote: http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25289 I think Dennett is right. As soon as we're able to build robots that act as

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-15 Thread Jason Resch
[mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR > *Sent:* Thursday, 16 January 2014 2:21 PM > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR > RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem > > > > Ah, well, I

RE: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-15 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem Ah, well, I would expect Dennett to say that! On 16 January 2014 16:19, Colin Geoffrey Hales mailto:cgha...@unimelb.edu.au>> wrote: http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25289 Daniel C. Dennett<http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_c_dennet

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
Ah, well, I would expect Dennett to say that! On 16 January 2014 16:19, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > > > http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25289 > > > > *Daniel C. Dennett* > > *Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Direct

RE: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-15 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25289 Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Intuition Pumps And again Cheers Niloc -- You received