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What does my body need me for? - Daniel C. Dennett

Bristol Festival of Ideas - Daniel C Dennett - Friday 20th March 2009 @ 18:00

Daniel C Dennett, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, comes to Bristol to discuss ‘What does my body need ME for? The role of human intelligence’. The more we learn about the powers of unconscious control systems – in robots and relatively simple animals, and in our own bodies – the more precisely we can pinpoint what ‘conscious thought’ accomplishes. It is not the ‘pinnacle’ or even the ‘centre’ of our agency, but without it, we could not be the agents that we are.

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