Daniel Dennett on Artificial Intelligence, New Atheism, and the Decline of Religion 

Rigth I just noticed what happend to him and according to his diagnosis he knew some time before and never really complained.

Yes, RIP Daniel Dennett.

@@rjung_ch no such thing as RIP - thats just a secular saying. we live forever whether we want too or knot. there are 2 Gods - satan is a god too.

Rest in *peace*

“Only here for 80 years; too short to be filled with tears! Hold on, hold on."

Except he got boosted by Jeffery Epstein back in the gap. Late but alas maybe he wasn't the skeptic he said he was.

Have you read, Job, a Comedy Of Justice?

@@canuckprogressive.3435 I’ve read everything he ever wrote, starting with “Rocket Ship Galileo”.

@@georgejones3526Cool. That particular book was kind of horrifying to me. Imagine a spaceship blasting of spraying tons of vaporized lead into the atmosphere. Ugh. I loved the books about Lazarus Long and the future history series.

Jesus was A "Fisherman" him and his 12 buddies probably were real Funny!( Fisherman are funny,Jesus walk on water please one more time!)

​@@SageRedowl-gt6kbyep, give a man a fish & he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish. & he'll sit in a boat & drink beer all day.

I feel sorry for you then

@@blaizegottman4139 Thanks man, I'm doing better these days.

​@@blaizegottman4139feeling sorry can open the mind to understanding the evolving intellect. ..

Atheist here! Morality and caring does not need a book. It only needs a heart! ❤️

@@VoteForWomensRights Oh we can see all the caring by both the religious and the atheist's. Bunch of nut jobs.

Thank you for this comment.

I don’t understand why you would think that just because you don’t agree with the tenets of a particular religion or any other religion you would automatically assume that there is no God. Or higher power or Supreme Being or something else, that there’s more to all creation than initially meets the eye.

If only there were like a universal religion. Don't misunderstand, people can be free to choose as they believe (and vice versa), but if there was just some sort of global church that was widely-present in different places, but with a single center where everything could be hashed out in a spirit of holiness. And preferably with some sort of pedigree. Basically one, holy, universal, and pedigreed church. I would totally join a church that had those 4 conditions.

@@jimohara He said he was Lutheran, so that approx nails down the definition of "God", which he decided he doesn't believe in. Of course there are many fantastic things out there in the universe beyond what we initially see, but we can dismiss Hinduism as being an accurate description of it (this is obvious to us both). Same with you religion.

@@MarcillaSmith But "religion", by definition, is unsupported by evidence. It would be called "science" if it were otherwise. This makes it impossible to find any agreement (which is why there are so many religions, but only 1 "chemistry", for example). But I do agree with Dennett that we need a better way to engage with community that doesn't involve compulsory nonsense.

Well he's wrong

@@blaizegottman4139it’s self evident.

@@blaizegottman4139I'm always fascinated by how people handle other religions. Surely you don't believe in all of them? Therefore at least some delusional stuff is going on. How do you decide? (I've asked this to many people in real life, they *always* evade the question).

@@stuff3219 same here. It’s an ego thing we are all guilty of in some respects.

@@stuff3219Great questions!

Didn't he correct this quote in the interview? It was "have you even considered the possibility that maybe you’ve wasted your life on this?"

Don't get it twisted: 10:45

@@sulljoh1 "There is no polite way of asking someone to consider whether they wasted their life on an illusion."

@@OikPoinFive Daniel Dennett being in hell is just your wishful thinking. He is dead now, but his ideas and his work stays with us. It's a bit weird for you to express delight for the idea of Daniel Dennett getting damned to hell. It's like you're getting off from this. Well, to each their own, I guess. There's no hate quite like Christian love.

Have you read The Precipice by Toby Ord?

@@Autumn_Blessings Might just have to now

Amazing to have one of the most prominent modern philosophers as your professor! 😮

I'd recommend "Intuition Pumps and other Thinking Tools".

Highly recommend Intuition Pump for general, Breaking The Spell for religion

It seems like he might have had some cancerous growths removed, but I could be wrong.

​@@michelebella677I thought maybe he'd taken a tumble but you could be right. The sun is not a friend to skin like his.

A combined chromosome. That’s why we have 46 and they have 48.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, whereas chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan have 48. This major karyotypic difference was caused by the fusion of two ancestral chromosomes to form human chromosome 2 and subsequent inactivation of one of the two original centromeres (Yunis and Prakash 1982).

Exactly, we're not at the center of the universe! We're so insignifiant!

@@MrBlasphemeux And yet we are not insignificant because we are drastically changing the biosphere and threatening the stability of life on Earth.

@@urbangorilla33good point

Evolution is false

And mental pararsites. or memes that dominate human behavior.

Thank you for the reminder to re-visit Dennett's writings.

Then is he out of his wheel house in overblowing this; as many laws and norms already exist that may check technology more than we know?

@@trukxelfhuh? He is talking about problems that have no legality?? What law has passed restricting chat gpt style ai?

He looks like he has been in a bar fight, not sure about the looking well part

Is that supposed to be funny?

I can’t believe it took me this long time find this comment. Why did David not acknowledge this?

Looks like he just survived a car accident.

I don't get it. Did he not already passed away? Why would you say he is looking well if he is dead?

What is the most convincing thing in the Bible that makes you a believer despite logic and reason?

theism doesn't need to be convinced out of. to this day, there is not a single good reason for theism that isn't logically unsound.

​@@MC-br1gk Daniel Dennet was a great mind and one of the great champions of reason. He was greatly influenced by Hume and Darwin. Christians believe their faith in the idea that "Jesus is Lord" offers eternal salvation and gives access to certain spiritual experiences. As a non Christian believer, who believe no such thing, how can you argue against it ? You cannot disprove their claim as a an athiest or agnostic, because you have never (truly) accepted their faith . Any argument between a Christian believer and an athiest or agnostic will lead nowhere. We either believe or we don't.

@@782YKW blah blah blah

@@MC-br1gk What does 'blah blah blah' mean ?

Yes, I believe a lot of the so-called witches were in fact midwives and the more educated women. Basically whoever were a threat to the men of the church at that time.

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club

Shhhhh!

What is this "fight club" that you speak of ?

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@Uncle_GenX I’m not a member, so I’m unshackled by its tenets.

Yikes, I had no idea.

it really is a moral dilemma when a person is so proud and resistant to self-analysis, learning and change. Your summary of religion is a manipulation of the great thing about the thousands of humble Christians who are actively growing and adapting each day.

@@jamesmedina2062 Those are not the types of Christians one should worry about. The ones that are dangerous are the ones that take their bible seriously.

@@smitty347 Well define: take the book seriously. We have major hypocrites in Congress. We have a serious issue with willful blindness to the contradictions between Judaism and Christianity, and to lively debate within a church. But seriously the old Testament is extremely different from teachings of Jesus.

@@jamesmedina2062 Yeah, so what you do is you take the parts you like and ignore the parts you don't. That's called cherry picking. The more cherry picking Christians do, the better people they usually are.

@@smitty347 well thats especially true for Muslims too, otherwise they would have to kill all the infidels.

Only when all that believe in it are gone, will such an archaic superstition, fade into obscurity. Perhaps after the 7th great ELE.

Nietzsche spoke metaphorically. The beliefs of the populace didn't matter for him. It was a matter of whether the morality of his society (and ours) was intellectually supported by something apart from fairytales, and his answer was: obviously no, and what are the consequences?

God never lived so he can’t die

??

The world needs him and all like him to be refuted and accepted to some extent but rejected to another extent.

I miss Christopher Hitchens. Wonder all the time how he would be dealing with Trump, the evangelicals and foreign affairs.

One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Is that a compliment?!!?

@@k1988smith of the highest order. Look up four horsemen: Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett

quite the distortion

I'm surprised he believes him about fake atheism

Folks, is David telling you the truth about the facts? Consider the facts. See with your eyes, not your ears. TRUTH... Who favors Putin? Who favors Illegals over Black American Citizens? The Eye/Ear thing applies Trump and Republicans Sanctioned Putin Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline. Trump showed Anti Putin Biden and Democrats gave Putin a gift and Lifted those Sanctions right away. Biden showed Pro Putin Dems are lying and their voters don't know it or don't care Trump and Republicans Secured our Borders to Protect America Biden and Democrats immediately Opened Our Borders up to the entire world and Democrats are telling Black Americans to give up their Communities. They are giving away their Schools, Community Centers, Med Center, and $$$ to Illegals. WHY didn't Dems ever offer these FREE checks and FREE benefits to Black Americans? Democrat Governor Hochul is trying to give STATE JOBS to Illegals but didn't do this for Black American Citizens. (I think it was around 4,000 jobs all total) The Border Bill Dems are pushing will allow 35,000 Illegals per week. Over a million a yr. Trump and Republicans want to Close the Border again. So folks, check facts and see with your eyes, not your ears. Semper Fi USA

As for nature… I’ve got wild skunks in my backyard.

Have you no further advancements to make, soldier?

I was wondering what happened. Guess we'll never know. All the best to him

I think he flipped his 'vette. I wish him a speedy recovery!

older people fall down and hit their head all the time....

@@majesticpbjcat7707don't make shit up

Reminds me of my dad when he had skin cancer. Out of desperation after all the main stream medical treatments didn't work he went to a Marijuana dispensary. He got some cannabis oil, mixed it with some alovera and put it on the lesions. They were gone in six weeks, his doctor couldn't believe it.

No, he’s part of the stupidity. Doesn’t mean he’s not a stepping stone to something better.

Your math aside, good points. 😂

And if we are so significant, why is it that, even just being able to inhabit this blue dust spec in a relative infinity hostile to us, we can only live in 25% of this dust spec and at least not the entirety of it?

@@xelasomar4614 Exactly, just makes no sense. Plus don’t get me started on the we’re so so special even tho it’s almost impossible that life’s not on other planets out of the absurd amount of habitable planets yet we literally have no save as a species because we’re stuck here with no way of really expanding to another planet.

"..it feels like it's been wasted..." Before christianity was born, the arabs, middle eastern, mediterranean, and the orient had the rudiments of science, had advanced math to algebra and trigonometry levels using the decimal numerical system (0-9). You could not do so without having the value zero (0). If you check history, countries that fell under christian control, Europe and parts of Mediterranea, used the "Roman" numerical system (I, II, III, IV..) until the 1,500's. The reason for this was the church prohibited the teaching and introduction of the decimal system, because it contained the number zero (0). The reason for this is they didn't want the concept of infinity, or nothingness known, because infinity and nothingness contradicted the model of the universe and reality they followed and taught to make a god created cosmos. They did allow certain guilds to learn it for the obvious necessities, building stuff, etc., like masons and Jesuits. But you had to be initiated into them. Now think the amount of progress that has occurred in only about 200 years. From lightning with candles to electricity, from just riding horses to putting rovers on Mars, in medicine, from using leeches to genetically designed cures, and on and on. *Religion held back human progress for 1,500 years* because it threatened their mythology and hence control of the population.

He’s not dead yet

It seems like this is his first public appearance in a while. Am I wrong?

Great philosper, but I would give that title to Professor Cornel West.

@@782YKW OK you might have a case now Dennett has passed.