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SEASON TWO - EPISODE #70

Daniel Dennett Dialogue

Daniel Dennett joins us for a discussion on the origin of human consciousness, and how our minds have been shaped by natural selection and generations of cultural evolution.

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Daniel Dennett

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World-renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett is the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is also a internationally bestselling author and acclaimed public speaker. He joins us for a special Munk Dialogue on the origin of human consciousness, and how our minds have been shaped by natural selection and generations of cultural evolution.

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Daniel Dennett

“We have more degrees of freedom than any other organism alive. We're autonomous, we pull our own strings…the primary moral responsibility of every human being is to not become a puppet of others.”

Daniel Dennett

“We have more degrees of freedom than any other organism alive. We're autonomous, we pull our own strings…the primary moral responsibility of every human being is to not become a puppet of others.”

Daniel C. Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of over four hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
 

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