<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Such a loss :-(<br><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/</a></blockquote><br>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. <br><br>Planck's Principle on paradigms and funerals:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px;padding-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_Paul_the_Apostle" title="Conversion of Paul the Apostle" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none">Saul becomes Paul</a>. 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.</p><div class="gmail-templatequotecite" style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.5em;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">— <cite style="font-style:inherit">Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97<br><br>Colloquially, this is often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time"<br></cite></div></blockquote><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">_________________________________________________________________<br>Stephen Guerin<br>CEO, Founder <br><a href="https://simtable.com" target="_blank">https://simtable.com</a><br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a> <br><br><div><a href="mailto:stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu</a><br><a href="https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home" target="_blank">Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab</a><br><div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Such a loss :-(<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I will put his autobiography "I’ve Been Thinking" from last year on my reading list<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/01/ive-been-thinking-by-daniel-c-dennett-review-an-engaging-vexing-memoir-with-a-humility-bypass" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/01/ive-been-thinking-by-daniel-c-dennett-review-an-engaging-vexing-memoir-with-a-humility-bypass</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net" target="_blank">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> </div><div>Date: 4/19/24 7:32 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) </div><div><br></div></div>A sad day today. Daniel Dennett has died :-( For every big question in philosophy there is at least one Daniel Dennett book:<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">"Consciousnes Explained" (1991) about consciousness<br dir="auto">"Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (1995) about evolution <br dir="auto">"Freedom Evolves" (2003) about free will<br dir="auto">"Breaking the spell" (2006) about religion<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto"><a href="https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/" target="_blank">https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/</a><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .<br>
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