“CHILDHOOD’S END: I think it’s Skye Stewart who pointed us all to Daniel Dennett

“CHILDHOOD’S END:

I think it’s Skye Stewart who pointed us all to Daniel Dennett’s talk. It’s classicl Dennett: entertainment. But what we fail to see is that he’s working in the ancient paradigm of states and language rather than changes in state – the problem with philosophy writ large.

It’s helpful that we can easily be tricked – that undermines our confidence. But it tells us little other how to play skeptical parlor games.

By comparison Jeff Hawkins’ talks are algorithmic explanations of experience as on going changes in state for the purpose of forecasting the future so that we may act upon it.

If I stated that understanding Hawkins, my work, and Haidt is pretty much the current state of knowledge I think that would be correct.

Paradigms and the languages that reference them MATTER.

I think I need to record a talk tying the three bodies of work together.

And I think I will call it “childhood’s end”.