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Daniel Dennett is a prominent philosopher who has dedicated much of his career to developing theories of consciousness, such as the Multiple Drafts Model [1] and illusionism {fact:6, 13, 29}. He authored influential works on the subject, including 'Consciousness Explained' {fact:3, 4, 7}, and has engaged in extensive academic discourse regarding the nature, functions, and potential illusory status of consciousness {fact:17, 25, 31}.
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 9 facts
claimDavid Chalmers attributes to Daniel Dennett the view that consciousness is defined solely as reportability, reactive disposition, or other functional concepts.
referenceIn his book 'Consciousness Explained', Daniel Dennett relies on 'heterophenomenology'—the use of verbal reports as the central source of data—which David Chalmers critiques for implicitly assuming that verbal reports are the only aspect of consciousness requiring explanation.
claimDaniel Dennett asserts that the manifest phenomena requiring explanation regarding consciousness are limited to reactions and abilities.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers asserts that the view that one can reject Daniel Dennett's 'no problem' perspective on consciousness while still expecting a purely physical explanation is untenable for systematic reasons.
claimDaniel Dennett has acknowledged that there is a prima facie case that consciousness requires explanation beyond functional processes, and he has described his own position as 'radical' and 'counterintuitive'.
claimDaniel Dennett explicitly argues that explaining the functions of consciousness is sufficient to explain consciousness itself.
claimDavid Chalmers asserts that his disagreement with Daniel Dennett regarding consciousness stems from basic intuitions about first-person phenomenology.
claimDavid Chalmers interprets Daniel Dennett's 'Orwell/Stalin' discussion as an argument that takes materialism as a premise to conclude that functional facts exhaust all facts about consciousness.
quoteDaniel Dennett suggests that if one subtracts the functions of consciousness, nothing is left.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
claimDaniel Dennett combines his qualified denials of certain features of consciousness with a positive theory of the aspects he considers real, such as the Multiple Drafts Model.
claimDaniel Dennett's Multiple Drafts Model (MDM) has faced criticism from Block (1994), Dretske (1994), and Levine (1994) for being insufficiently realist in its view of consciousness and incomplete in its goal to fully explain consciousness.
claimDaniel Dennett advanced the Multiple Drafts Model (MDM) of consciousness in 1991, which combines elements of representationalism and higher-order theory to provide an interpretational, less strongly realist view of consciousness.
claimScientific and philosophical research into the nature and basis of consciousness experienced a major resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s, involving researchers such as Bernard Baars (1988), Daniel Dennett (1991), Roger Penrose (1989, 1994), Francis Crick (1994), William Lycan (1987, 1996), and David Chalmers (1996).
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
claimDaniel Dennett compares consciousness to stage magic, noting its capability to create extraordinary illusions out of ordinary things.
claimDaniel Dennett is a prominent figure associated with illusionism who has argued for the illusory status of consciousness since early in his career.
referenceDaniel Dennett argues for an eliminativist perspective on consciousness in his 1991 book 'Consciousness Explained', suggesting that consciousness is not what it seems.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 2 facts
referenceEliminativism regarding consciousness is defended by Rey (1997), Dennett (1978, 1988), Wilkes (1984), and Ryle (1949).
referenceDaniel C. Dennett authored the article 'Quining Qualia,' which appeared in the book 'Consciousness and Contemporary Science' edited by A. Marcel and E. Bisiach in 1988.
Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu 2 facts
perspectiveDaniel Dennett argues that consciousness is 'all tell and no show'.
referenceDaniel Dennett and M. Kinsbourne published 'Time and the Observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain' in the journal Behavior and Brain Sciences in 1992.
David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com 1 fact
perspectiveDaniel Dennett insists that consciousness is an 'illusion'.
Global workspace theory: consciousness as brain wide information ... selfawarepatterns.com 1 fact
claimDaniel Dennett uses the metaphor 'fame in the brain' to describe how information becomes conscious by being broadcast and made available to unconscious specialty modules throughout the brain.
The development of consciousness from an evolutionary perspective academia.edu 1 fact
referenceTheories of consciousness proposed by Edelman, Baars, Rosenfield, Dennett, and Varela share the common idea that a biological and psychological approach to consciousness is necessary to understand cognition.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
quoteDaniel Dennett argues that zombies are actual and that nobody is conscious in the mysterious way that supports doctrines like epiphenomenalism, stating: “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”
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com 1 fact
perspectiveIllusionists posit that consciousness is an illusion and that subjective experiences, such as the experience of redness, do not actually exist, but are merely mistaken beliefs held by the individual (citing Dennett, 2018; Frankish, 2016; Humphrey, 2020).
Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca 1 fact
perspectiveDan Dennett advocated for evolutionary biology and computational models of the mind, and proposed that consciousness is an emergent property of neural processes and evolution.
Psychedelics and Consciousness: Distinctions, Demarcations, and ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua 1 fact
referenceDaniel Dennett authored the book 'Consciousness Explained', which provides a philosophical account of consciousness.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceDaniel Dennett proposes 'illusionism' as a default theory of consciousness in his 2016 publication, 'Illusionism as an obvious default theory of consciousness'.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimDaniel Dennett argued in a 1978 cautionary tale that the physical location of consciousness is immaterial.
The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectiveDaniel Dennett argues that the mysterious nature of consciousness is merely a cognitive illusion and suggests that philosophers should abandon the concept of the philosophical zombie.
(PDF) Levels of consciousness and self-awareness - Academia.edu academia.edu 1 fact
referenceDaniel C. Dennett published 'Consciousness explained' in 1991.