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The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett
Philosopher Dan Dennett argues in a TED talk that we do not understand our own consciousness and that our brains often fool us. He uses perceptual examples, including a painting that invites the viewer to fill in detail.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a short route to Dennett's view of consciousness as a bag of tricks, often in AI and cognition threads.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- philosophy of consciousness
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2023
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From the original HN conversations
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it's not just that phenomenon. Daniel Dennett mentions an experience where a painting , with very little detail up-close, appeared to him to have all the detail of a photograph when viewed from afar[0]. It's not quite the same thing as the uncanny valley effect, …
serf on Hacker News · 2020-09
In Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today”One can equally say, "Human brains only know that a neuron is activated by a pattern of axon firing in response to physical inputs from nerve endings." Does any of that change anything? Not really. >It doesn't understand credit card rewards Is this assertion based …
schiffern on Hacker News · 2023-02
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