it is also argued by Dennett and some of his defenders that people like Bentley Hart misinterpret and provide reductive accounts of Dennett's ideas. — Tom Storm
But arguing against it is like those cowboy games you played as a kid, when you plainly had shot the other guy but he simply refused to acknowledge it and kept going regardless. — Wayfarer
I’d rather be part of a plan, than part of an accident. — Wayfarer
I think I came to it (and Plantinga) via Kant's transcendental argument. No problem if all this makes you a theist. But it would be quite a big leap to get from that to Jesus as your own personal saviour. Would that take you full circle? :razz: — Tom Storm
Pardon me, but tosh. Dennett literally says humans are essentially mindless robots in service of the selfish gene, and that life is a kind of runaway chemical reaction. It's a symptom of the decline of the West that such nonsense is dignifed with the title 'philosophy'. — Wayfarer
I haven't actually read Dennett's argument but I must say I find the claim that the mind "doesn't exist" to be a puzzler. — fishfry
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