Dennett on Brains and Blame
“Of course my brain made me do it! What would you want, your stomach to make you do it?”
That’s from the text of a brief interview with Daniel Dennett at WBUR’s site.
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I haven’t read his new book, so I’m curious: does Dennett endorse the false dichotomy as one of his “tools for thinking”?
Sometimes I think it is entirely appropriate to say that my stomach made me do it.
I’m pretty sympathetic to the idea that I think Dennett is getting at, but that idea, properly understood, should be willing to give an important role to, if not the stomach exactly, at least to the digestive system. See, e.g., this:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/11/justice-is-served-but-more-so-after-lunch-how-food-breaks-sway-the-decisions-of-judges/#.U-Qr-LGTL68