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Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a... read more

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  • “Mother Nature is not a "gene-centrist." That is, the process of natural selection doesn't favor transmitting information via genes when the same information (roughly) can be just as reliably, and more cheaply, provided by some other regularity in the world.”

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One widespread tradition has it that we human beings are responsible agents, captains of our fate, because what we really are are souls, immaterial and immortal clumps of Godstuff that inhabit and control our material bodies rather like spectral puppeteers.

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  1. Daniel C. Dennett (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: New York
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0670031860
Page Count: 368

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