Podcast
E35: An Irenic Kind of Fellow – A Discussion on Illusionism with Keith Frankish
A first for the Dawdlers, they speak to a third person. No longer are they experiencing what it’s like to be a duo. Keith Frankish is here to tell them their duality is but a mere illusion and he is the proof! Something like that. Enjoy their conversation with Dr. Read more…
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E20: The Great Silliness – Consciousness Does Not Exist
Harland and Ryan were born on the same day 3 years apart. December 22. To celebrate they’re doing an episode on consciousness and how you, yes you, dont have it!! Happy birthday to us, eh? Eh… They don’t know philosopher Keith Frankish’s birthday, but he doesn’t think you have consciousness Read more…
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Why I’m not Convinced: The Chinese Room
The following remarks regard the text: Searle, John. R. (1980) “Minds, Brains, and Programs”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 417-457 All quotations in this post were extracted from this paper. Make sure to listen to The Dawdlers discuss this paper in depth in E1: John Searle Does not Understand – Read more…
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E12: Daniel Dennett’s Easy Problems – Content, Consciousness, and Intuition Pumps
This time the Dawdler’s examine Daniel Dennett’s book “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” (2013). Regardless of all that, these two tools think they think. Topics explored are philosophical zombies, Occam’s Razor, black boxes, and sorta operators. Do you smell that? It’s the sweet potpourri of Dennettian thinkadinks. -Dawds Read more…