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Daniel Dennett
Picture a world where the soul is not a wisp or a secret, but a question for science. Where the mind’s mysteries are dragged into the light of labs and logic, and every cherished intuition is put on trial. That is the world Daniel Dennett inherited.Daniel Dennett was born in Boston in nineteen forty-two, into a time and place shaped by two powerful forces. On one side stood the old humanist confidence of New England, where culture and language mattered. On the other, the postwar surge of American science, where every assumption was up for testing and nothing was sacred just because it felt…
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