[FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

[Stephen Guerin]

Michael Levin's farewell to Dan Dennett
  https://thoughtforms.life/farewell-dan-dennett-i-will-really-miss-you/




On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 2:46 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> 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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