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Why Mind Viruses Are Real

Quillette 11 Nov 2024
Daniel Dennett’s tongue was only partly planted in his cheek when he quipped that “a scholar is a library’s way of making another library.” People from all ideological camps should be open-minded ...
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Philosophy at school gives young people the tools to discuss difficult topics such as the ...

The Conversation 21 Oct 2024
The influential American philosopher Daniel Dennett , who died earlier this year, wrote about the importance of criticising with kindness and seeking the most charitable version of your opponent’s position.
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London Standard’s AI-generated review, by late art critic Brian Sewell, exposes a significant philosophical threat

The Conversation 02 Oct 2024
Another philosopher, closer to our times, who worried about the erosion of trust brought about by the wide, unreflective development and adoption of AI was Daniel Dennett, who died earlier this year.
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London Standard's AI-generated review, by late art critic Brian Sewell, exposes a significant philosophical threat

Phys Dot Org 02 Oct 2024
Another philosopher, closer to our times, who worried about the erosion of trust brought about by the wide, unreflective development and adoption of AI was Daniel Dennett, who died earlier this year.
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The New Atheists Are Getting Old

The Atlantic 26 Sep 2024
He began as an explainer of nature, a David Attenborough in print ... D. Vance ... Its leaders—Dawkins, along with Sam Harris , Christopher Hitchens , and Daniel Dennett —worried that public-school students would soon be learning creationism in biology class.
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Cave, Christianity and the search for meaning

AOL 20 Sep 2024
Rev David Haslam. Evesham, Worcestershire ...Having listened recently to the four horsemen of evangelical atheism – Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris – I found John Harris’s article fascinating and compelling ... .
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The rise of cultural Christianity

New Statesman 21 Aug 2024
The English are not a deeply religious people,” he observes. “Even many of those who attend divine service do so from habit. Their acceptance of the sacrament is perfunctory ... Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, and others.
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Elon Musk says he’s a ‘cultural Christian’ – why some leading thinkers are embracing Christianity

The Conversation 25 Jul 2024
Musk’s reasons are moral and political – he believes Christianity can boost both happiness and birthrates ... She later clarified ... A study led by the famous philosopher and atheist Daniel Dennett in 2010 interviewed clergy who doubted or disbelieved ... .
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Not yet panicking about AI? You should be – there’s little time left to rein it in

The Observer 22 Jul 2024
Right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people that have situational awareness.” One of them was the recently deceased Daniel Dennett, one of the most influential thinkers in the English-speaking ...
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What Can We Learn from the Computers of 1966?

Slashdot 21 Jul 2024
Harry R. Lewis has been a Harvard CS professor — teaching both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg — and the dean of Harvard college ... They can be, in the language of the late philosopher Daniel Dennett '63, counterfeit humans... .
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Thought experiment 1: The Chinese Room

New Statesman 17 Jul 2024
The late philosopher Daniel Dennett coined the term “intuition pump” in response to the Chinese Room ... But the Chinese Room, Dennett claimed, was deeply unhelpful ... And Dennett thought that we couldn’t conceive of a computer pulling this off ... [See also.
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AI is both liberating and enslaving us

The Spectator 25 Jun 2024
The reason Herzberg died was because what she was doing did not compute ... Stephen Hawking argued that artificial intelligence ‘could spell the end of the human race’ while, in his final interview, Daniel Dennett told The Spectator’s Gus Carter ... We must.
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A Different Way of Doing Atheism

Quillette 12 Jun 2024
... the “neo-atheism” movement that emerged over the last two decades, thanks largely to the influence of prominent atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
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Leadership Lessons From The Late Great Philosopher Daniel Dennett

Forbes 09 May 2024
Daniel C. Dennett gave so much to the world of philosophy of mind, but he has so much to offer to all possible worlds ... .

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