The Balfour Declaration Did Not Poison Jewish-Arab Relations in the Land of Israel
What the Palestinian narrative gets wrong.
November 10, 2017
Sorry, Daniel Dennett, the Mind Is Nothing Like a Computer
The illusionist.
In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, elaborating on the materialist stance that has occupied him for much of his career, endeavors to explain how the human mind and consciousness itself are the product of gradual, incremental evolution entirely reducible to physics and chemistry. To Dennett, the brain, like a computer, performs a series of discrete and mindless functions, which together create in us the illusion that we are conscious and sentient beings. David Bentley Hart attacks this argument in his review:
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How Anti-Israel Animus Brought Down a British Government Minister
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Sorry, Daniel Dennett, the Mind Is Nothing Like a Computer
The illusionist.
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