[FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

[Stephen Guerin]

>
> Such a loss :-(
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/


yes a loss of a great person and intellectual. Though in the loss is the
possibility of progress.  if you consider the above "atheist-darwinist" url
representing a certain paradigm in which Dennett has been cast as a central
figure.

Planck's Principle on paradigms and funerals:

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually
winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul
becomes Paul <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_Paul_the_Apostle>.
What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the
growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning:
another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
— Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97

Colloquially, this is often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral
at a time"


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On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> Such a loss :-(
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/
>
> I will put his autobiography "I’ve Been Thinking" from last year on my
> reading list
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/01/ive-been-thinking-by-daniel-c-dennett-review-an-engaging-vexing-memoir-with-a-humility-bypass
>
> -J.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net>
> Date: 4/19/24 7:32 PM (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
>
> A sad day today. Daniel Dennett has died :-( For every big question in
> philosophy there is at least one Daniel Dennett book:
>
> "Consciousnes Explained" (1991) about consciousness
> "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (1995) about evolution
> "Freedom Evolves" (2003) about free will
> "Breaking the spell" (2006) about religion
>
> https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/
>
> -J.
>
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