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Brainchildren
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Representation and Mind
Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editors
Hilary Putnam,
Representation and Reality
Fred Dretske,
Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes
Jerrold J. Katz,
The Metaphysics of Meaning
Jerry A. Fodor,
A Theory of Content and Other Essays
Cora Diamond,
The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind
Stephen L. White,
The Unity of the Self
Michael Tye,
The Imagery Debate
Christopher Peacocke,
A Study of Concepts
John R. Searle,
The Rediscovery of the Mind
John Campbell,
Past, Space, and Self
Galen Strawson,
Mental Reality
Michael Tye,
Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind
Robert Cummins,
Representations, Targets, and Attitudes
Edited by Peter J. McCormick,
Starmaking: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism
Hao Wang,
A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy
Jerrold J. Katz,
Realistic Rationalism
Daniel C. Dennett,
Brainchildren: Essays of Designing Minds
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Brainchildren
Essays on Designing Minds
Daniel C. Dennett
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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© 1998 Daniel C. Dennett
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical
means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in
writing from the publisher.
This book was set in Palatino by Achorn Graphic Services and was printed and bound in the United
States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dennett, Daniel Clement.
Brainchildren: essays on designing minds / Daniel C. Dennett.
p. cm.—(Representation and mind. A Bradford Book)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-04166-9 (hardcover: alk. paper).—ISBN 0-262-54090-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Artificial intelligence. 3. Animal intelligence.
I. Title. II. Series.
BD418.3.D46 1998
128'.2–dc21
97–9440
CIP
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For Harry and Betty Stanton
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Contents
Preface
xi
I
Philosophy of Mind
1
Can Machines Think?
3
Postscript [1985]: Eyes, Ears, Hands, and History
Postscript [1997]
2
Speaking for Our Selves
31
Nicholas Humphrey and Daniel C. Dennett
Postscript
3
Do-It-Yourself Understanding
59
4
Two Contrasts: Folk Craft versus Folk Science, and Belief versus Opinion
81
5
Real Patterns
95
6
Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology
121
7
Real Consciousness
131
8
Instead of Qualia
141
9
The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot
153
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