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Daniel Dennett is a prominent proponent of materialism, as evidenced by his arguments that functional facts exhaust consciousness [1] and his assertion that human experience can be instantiated in a material robot brain [2]. His work is frequently analyzed in the context of this philosophical framework [3], and he is explicitly identified as a materialist thinker by critics like Philip Goff [4].
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What is hard about the “hard problem of consciousness”? philosophy.stackexchange.com 2 facts
claimDaniel Dennett argues that asserting the impossibility of a RoboMary is not an argument for the falsity of materialism, but rather an assumption of it.
perspectiveDaniel Dennett asserts that contemporary materialism supports the view that humans are essentially robots made of robots, and that if materialism is true, it should be possible to build a material robot brain that instantiates the same theory of experience as a human brain.
Panpsychism: Conscious Rocks and Socks - Free Thinking Ministries freethinkingministries.com 1 fact
claimPhilip Goff argues against the materialistic views held by Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett in the first three chapters of 'Galileo's Error: Foundation for a New Science of Consciousness'.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
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.