This thinker describes being recruited by the CIA to tunnel under Tulsa, with the side-effect that he sees his own brain in a vat.
This thinker describes being recruited by the CIA to tunnel under Tulsa, with the side-effect that he sees his own brain in a vat. That essay, "Where Am I?" appears in a collection alongside "Skinner Skinned" and "Are Dreams Experiences?" in this philosopher's collection Brainstorms. Another essay by this author invokes the taste of steaming cauliflower and two employees of Maxwell House coffee as part of 15 "intuition pumps" meant to complete the title task. With a title derived from this author's own Philosophical Lexicon, that essay "Quining Qualia" advances an eliminativist position much like this author's Consciousness Explained. With his best-known book describing the power of evolution, FTP, identify this author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, a philosopher of mind based at Tufts.
This thinker describes being recruited by the CIA to tunnel under Tulsa, with the side-effect that he sees his own brain in a vat.
Daniel {Dennett}