Daniel Dennett lecture on Consciousness

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Kudos to Dennet for breaking up the "Cartesian theatre". It has taken scientists 350 years to debunk Descartes theory, and now they're back to the 700 year old debate of Hylomorphism which has its root in the 2300 year old theory of Aristotle.

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So what are you trying to say? That an old an unsettled debate is laughable?

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His position is that its an unanswerable question (at least, unless we are God) and so anything that makes it look like science is impotent or that we are spinning our wheels needs to be highlighted. Regardless of how irrelevant it is.