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This isn’t an April fool’s joke, The Philosopher (a good friend of mine’s nickname for Prof Daniel Dennett) is visiting Stellenbosch on Wednesday! I’m not duplicating the info here, see the Renowned philosopher to speak at Stellenbosch University news item on Stellenbosch University’s website.
He’s touring… a brief search on Facebook shows he’s also visiting Cape [...]

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I wrote about Dan Dennet’s TED talk on memes before. Right now, I want to talk about a 25 second section out of it, between 5:00 and 5:25:
I myself am a philosopher, and one of our occupational hazards is that people ask us what the meaning of life is. You have to have a bumper [...]

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The first talk of Dan Dennett that I watched, disappointed me. (It was his talk on “Believing in Belief”.) My disappointment came at the end of the talk, when he employed rhetorical devices reminiscent of what I see at creationist talks. Anyway, he’s still a potent thinker, worth listening to.
Check his TED talk on memes. [...]

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