…brain trust for TED, so-called, on the website, The main people in the area of consciousness studies are Steven Pinker and Daniel Dennett, both of whom are extreme militant atheists and materialists. We just don't know what kind of people are on the…

…of materialist science, personified by the various skeptics who appear in the book, Lewis Walpert, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, that Sheldrake directs his heretical science, partly I think as a riposte to these missionaries of scientific correctness,…

…thousand people. I know this is true because I've had many encounters with skeptics. Recently, two or three years ago with Daniel Dennett, the noted materialist philosopher and fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. And I asked him, since he was so…

…human brains and they speculate as to how this could have got there through Darwinian natural selection. The atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett, for example, has speculated that a gene for credulity has been built into all of us through natural selection…

…it's not because they're all fanatically committed to ideological materialism. There are some who really are. Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett. There are a number of people for whom this is a kind of lifelong crusade. But a lot of scientists…

…living organization come up even at this level of locomotion, and you don't yet have to sort of move to consciousness. Daniel Dennett, you said, I think that a robot could definitely be conscious in exactly, unmetaphorically, the same way as we are.…

…actually would have to earn a living in a world where people had other purposes. I wonder, Olafur, you asked me, does Daniel Dennett have children? Does he have a dog? Do you remember? Yes, indeed. Do you remember why you asked? Oh, I think Sherrington…

…simple cognitive rule. It's just a different mental system that they're following. But there's mentality there, there are rules. But if Daniel Dennett is saying, there's not a little man in our heads that is all powerful, there are a bunch of little men…

…to look at it. It doesn't matter how good it is. They just refuse to look at it. You know, I had an argument with Daniel Dennett two or three years ago. We were at a conference and I said, you know, what about a public debate? I said, you're a…

…what follows from eliminating this bifurcation of nature in Whitehead's view. That religion is, if you want, I mean, I know Daniel Dennett would say this, but I mean it in a different way, a Whiteheadian way, religion is a natural phenomenon. It's part…

…in that book is there's a chapter on consciousness. And you were talking about that materialist philosophers and people like Daniel Dennett, who who wrote Consciousness Explained, but it was really sort of consciousness explained away. But he said that it's…

…views. And you sort of say, well, you know, we were talking earlier about that fascinating conversation that you had with with Daniel Dennett and Oliver Sacks. And there was a Stephen Jay Gould, five or six of you sitting around a table, this is about…

…four-year-old son, and that's the answer, that's how I talk about it. Now, if I were talking about it to somebody like Daniel Dennett, I'd obviously have to be talking about it in a completely different way, because he'd immediately bring in the brain and…

…whatever about psychic phenomena. They simply know it must be wrong. I had an argument a couple of years ago with Daniel Dennett, who's a fellow, a materialist philosopher and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. And I said to him, Dan,…

…practices. The new generation of militant atheists have actually taken up spiritual practices. Old style atheists like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett just rejected the whole lot. But the new style like Sam Harris, one of the so-called new atheists, accept…