On Monday, 08, had a more Border Pensamentom this time the speaker was Daniel Dennett - Philosopher cognitive U.S. - SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE
cognitivist American philosopher, born in 1942, called defender of connectionism in artificial intelligence. Professor Emeritus of Arts and Sciences and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University in Massachusetts, is considered one of the most vigorous defenders of Darwinism.
His research is related to the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly on how these fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett argues that consciousness does not occur in a specific area of \u200b\u200bthe brain, but a sequence of inputs and outputs that form a chain through which information moves. He is author, among other books, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Globo, 2006), Darwin's dangerous idea (Rocco, 1998) and Type of minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness (Rocco, 1997).
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