Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

Of all the odd notions to emerge from debates over consciousness, the oddest is that it doesn’t exist, at least not in the way we think it does. It is an illusion, like “Santa Claus” or “American ...

This is part 4 of a series. See part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. Daniel C. Dennett is an emeritus professor at Tufts University and one of the most influential philosophers and cognitive ...

The “problem of other minds”—knowing that someone else has a mind like yours, and in the case of consciousness, subjective experiences similar to yours—is not too much of a problem when we are ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined scholar Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...