Daniel Clement Dennett

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    Consciousness is cerebral celebrity—nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and “symptomatic” effects—on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.
    —Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)

    Are they shadows that we see?
    And can shadows pleasures give?
    Pleasures only shadows be,
    Cast by bodies we conceive;
    —Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

    Is thy home European or Asian,
    O mystical monster marine?
    —Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)

    To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.
    —Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)