HON 1010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Human Interest Story, Daniel Dennett, Intentional Stance
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It is a convenient fiction : dennett"s most recent conclusion: the stances other than the physical stance tell us physical stance nothing that cannot be captured by the physical stance, ex. In darwin"s wake, where am i: a. i. Evolution creates the skylark, a. i. produces an ode to a nightingale (poem) Watson: we consider watson to be the winner of jeopardy, not the scientists who created/programmed watson, if we find that the whole journey was already completed by the time. Spakesheare"s memory was constructed and filled with information, we know that spakesheare played no role at all . In this case, dr. frankenstein would by the author, and. Spakesheare simply an editor: if spakesheare has been equipped by dr. frankenstein with a virtual past, a lifetime stock of pseudo-memories of experiences on which to draw while responding to its frankenstein-installed obsessive desire to write a play.