Philosophy & Consciousness
Spiral Dynamics (Value Memes)
Spiral Dynamics is Beck and Cowan's development of Clare Graves's proposed framework of changing value orientations
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Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark
Dennett examines thought experiments that separate internal structure, future behavior, ancestry, and history to force intuitions about content or category membership
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The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch
Dennett critiques a manipulation-based responsibility argument by Greene and Cohen inspired by The Boys from Brazil
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The Chinese Room
Searle's Chinese Room challenges the claim that executing the right formal program is sufficient for understanding
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The Curse of the Cauliflower
Dennett's cauliflower example begins with differences in taste and liking, then challenges the assumption that intrinsic qualia can be isolated from contextual, relational, and dispositional features of experience.
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The Intentional Stance
The intentional stance predicts behavior by attributing beliefs and goals under suitable rationality assumptions
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The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing
The Library of Mendel represents genomes within a vast combinatorial sequence space
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The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction
Dennett distinguishes descriptions of persons and their activities from explanations of contributing subpersonal processes
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The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras
Dennett's imaginary Mr
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The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity
Dennett proposes understanding the self as an organizing abstraction associated with narrative patterns, analogous to a center of gravity rather than an inner controlling object.
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The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed
Dennett introduces elementary computation through a register machine and develops seven lessons about competence without comprehension, representation, stored instructions, universality, and implementation
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The Sorta Operator
Dennett uses sorta to discuss partial, precursor, or approximate versions of capacities without prematurely demanding a fully developed all-or-nothing category.
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The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth
Dennett's teleclone story explores whether informational reconstruction would preserve a person and what kinds of continuity matter
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The Tree of Life
The tree of life represents evolutionary relationships through common descent
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The Tuned Deck
The Tuned Deck illustrates how a seemingly unified feat can be produced by different methods on different occasions
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The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot
These thought experiments examine how a device's function, a word's reference, and an autonomous robot's goals depend on environment, history, and purpose as well as internal organization.
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The Zombic Hunch
The zombic hunch is the intuition that a complete physical and behavioral duplicate of a conscious person could nevertheless lack experience
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The “Surely” Operator: A Mental Block
The surely operator is Dennett's suggestion to inspect confidence words for assumptions a writer expects readers to accept
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Three Species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step
Rathering implies an unsupported incompatibility
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Trapped in the Robot Control Room
This thought experiment asks how signals inside a robot could become meaningful when their interpreter has no independent view of the surrounding world
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Two Black Boxes
Dennett's connected boxes use different internal representations but coordinate responses through overlapping represented content
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Two Counter-images
Dennett's two counter-images challenge a privileged central location for consciousness by emphasizing distributed processes and the wider influence that some contents acquire.
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Two Lotteries
Two Lotteries compares selecting a winner before tickets are distributed with selecting one afterward
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Ultimate Responsibility
Ultimate responsibility concerns a demanding form of moral responsibility that appears to require responsibility for the character from which one acts
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Universal Acid
Dennett's universal-acid metaphor expresses how Darwinian explanation challenges assumptions about design and intelligence across disciplines
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Using Lay Audiences as Decoys
Experts explain their positions to willing nonexperts while fellow experts listen, making detailed explanation socially comfortable and exposing omitted premises
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Vim: How Much Is That in “Real Money”?
Vim is Dennett's invented term for a currency's supposedly intrinsic economic value apart from all exchange relations
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Virtual Machines
Virtual machines are computational organizations implemented by underlying systems
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What Does the Frog’s Eye Tell the Frog’s Brain?
Lettvin and colleagues showed feature-sensitive processing in frog retinal outputs
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What Is a Deepity?
A deepity gains apparent profundity by moving between a modest defensible reading and a stronger, unsupported or false reading
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When Does Speciation Occur?
Speciation can involve gradual lineage divergence and partial reproductive isolation, but mechanisms and species criteria vary, and some reproductive barriers arise rapidly
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Who Is the Author of Spamlet?
Dennett imagines a constructed creator, Spakesheare, producing a play, Spamlet, and asks where the creative design work occurs
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Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations
Dennett examines properties defined by distant or later relations, including widowhood and a maternal-line common ancestor
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Wonder Tissue
Wonder tissue is Dennett's warning against assuming an unspecified special power of neural material to explain mental competence
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ZOMBIES AND ZIMBOES
Dennett's zimbo highlights the self-monitoring and reflective complexity required of a purported unconscious duplicate
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“Daddy Is a Doctor”
Dennett's example asks how much related knowledge a child needs to count as understanding a statement
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Beginner's Mind (Shoshin)
Shoshin is an orientation of openness in Zen practice, articulated by Shunryu Suzuki as meeting activity without a closed self-image of expertise
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Dependent Origination (Everything Arises in Relation)
Dependent origination is a Buddhist teaching on conditional arising and cessation, centrally the conditions sustaining suffering
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Impermanence (Anicca)
Anicca is the Buddhist teaching that conditioned phenomena are impermanent
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Middle Way (Avoiding Extremes)
In an early Buddhist formulation, the Middle Way avoids indulgence and self-affliction through the Noble Eightfold Path
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Wu Wei (Effortless Action)
Wu wei is a Daoist idea of nonaction or non-forcing, often concerning action and governance without unnecessary interference
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Yin-Yang (Complementary Opposites)
Yin-yang concerns relational and complementary aspects within Chinese philosophical traditions
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism concerns limits of warranted knowledge; Huxley's formulation emphasizes following reasons without claiming unsupported certainty
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Birth Lottery
The birth lottery highlights unchosen starting conditions that shape opportunities and outcomes
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Consequentialism
Consequentialism is a family of ethical views grounding moral assessment in consequences, with different accounts of value, uncertainty, and the object evaluated
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Distributive Justice vs Procedural Justice
Distributive justice concerns allocation of benefits and burdens; procedural justice concerns how decisions are made
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Effective Altruism
Effective altruism uses evidence and reasoning to seek better ways to help others and act on them
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Just World Hypothesis
The just-world hypothesis concerns motivation to view outcomes as deserved, which can sometimes encourage victim derogation or unsupported merit judgments
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