Raw LLM Responses

/u/TheTruthIsUnknown asked: > I know that Daniel Dennett wrote a book famously (and jokingly) known as "Consciousness Explained Away." If you could say one thing to Daniel Dennett, what would it be? > > I am in a Master's program for philosophy. Do you have any advice for me? actually i made that "consciousness explained away" joke to dan before his book was published. no doubt so did many others. people sometimes talk as if we're big enemies, but we've been friends for years. we first met when i was in graduate school and he came to indiana to hang out with my advisor, doug hofstadter. he wrote me a letter of recommendation when i went on the job market. a couple of years ago we spent a week cruising around greenland and talking about consciousness. of course we have some pretty deep disagreements, but by now we have a pretty good sense of what the other one is going to say, so it would probably be hard for either of us to say anything about our core disagreement that really surprises the other. i think his basic view, that consciousness is an illusion, is a really important one to pursue. if i have any complaint it would be that he hasn't pursued it strongly and deeply enough in recent years. as for advice: find a philosophical problem that you're really passionate about, and think about it as deeply and as carefully as you can.