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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Daniel Dennett
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Date: 20 Nov 91 05:25:09 GMT
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In article <OZ.91Nov19130115@ursa.sis.yorku.ca> 
oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

[...]

>In short, put up or shut up.

Since I was imprudent enough to single out poor Dennett from the whole
sorry AI/cognitive science lot, I shall presently respond to your
challenge, and may even come up with a brief review of his latest fantasy
masterpiece, "Consciousness Explained", within two weeks, the period needed
for procuring and perusing the drivelous piece of trash without enriching
the old fraud.  At this time, I shall offer you the following tantalizing
tidbit: for a prime example of intellectual dishonesty, see his petulant,
disingenuous response to Colin McGinn's "The Problem of Consciousness",
towards the end of the book, and then, by going back to McGinn's text,
figure out the rather obvious reason why it is highly unlikely that Dennett
read the book he's citing.  Also spot his obligatory mention of Penrose,
curiously combined with lack of substantive response to his devastating
anti-AI arguments.  Charlatan or ignoramus? you be the judge.

In short, be polite of bugger off.

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