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Daniel Dennett is related to the brain because he theorizes it as a 'syntactic engine' [1] and proposes that consciousness emerges from simultaneous processes occurring within it [2], while also defining 'cerebral celebrity' based on how content influences the brain's development and behavioral outputs [3].
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Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimDaniel Dennett (1987:61) characterizes the materialist monist view of the brain as a 'syntactic engine,' meaning it operates without fundamental reference to the propositional content of thoughts.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimDaniel Dennett defines 'cerebral celebrity' as the degree to which a specific content influences the future development of other contents throughout the brain, particularly regarding how those effects manifest in a person's reports and behaviors in response to probes.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimDaniel Dennett's multiple processes theory of consciousness, proposed in 1991, views consciousness as the outcome of interactions between different processes occurring simultaneously in different parts of the brain.