Good write-up. I strongly believe that the reservations in your last paragraph can be met from a functionalist analysis of the issues, though it's not something easily captured in a brief comment.
If we take all the ideas that are needed to resolve and dismiss the "Hard Problem", I think Dennett has only provided about one third of the answer. But it's an important third, and I think future generations will come to see that he was mostly right, and illusionism of the Dennett sort is mostly true.
When we get functional artificial consciousness, as we will by the end of the century, Dennett will have the least handwaving and hemming and hawing to do of anyone in the industry.
Good write-up. I strongly believe that the reservations in your last paragraph can be met from a functionalist analysis of the issues, though it's not something easily captured in a brief comment.
If we take all the ideas that are needed to resolve and dismiss the "Hard Problem", I think Dennett has only provided about one third of the answer. But it's an important third, and I think future generations will come to see that he was mostly right, and illusionism of the Dennett sort is mostly true.
When we get functional artificial consciousness, as we will by the end of the century, Dennett will have the least handwaving and hemming and hawing to do of anyone in the industry.