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12049634 No.12049634 [Reply] [Original]

Dreams are the product of instantaneous memory insertion at the moment of the awakening, as if a cassette with pre-scripted dreams had been inserted into memory, ready for replay.
-Daniel Dennett, serious philosopher of mind

>> No.12049635

>>12049634
Perhaps but the same could be said of existence.

>> No.12049636

>>12049634
Heard that idea. It's as bullshit as the assertion that you cna feel when you'r ebeing watched because you're actually looking up all the time and other assorted nonsense.

>> No.12049638

>>12049634
why do I wake up multiple times a night screaming from the nightmares I have then?

>> No.12049640

>>12049638
Stop arguing with SCIENCE. Burn the heretic!

>> No.12049662

>>12049638
I dunno I'll google to see if any champagne socialist boomers have thought anything up.

>> No.12049670

>>12049634
>have fucked up absurdist dream
>wake up and realize that my dream matched events in the tv shows that had been running during my dream, in the order they happened, so closely and reliably that I can place what time I had dreamed something by when it influenced my dream
>NONO INSTANTANEOUS MEMORY INSERTIONS DREAMS ARENT REAL REEEEEE

>> No.12049677

>>12049634
He really thinks this? Why?

>> No.12049686

>>12049662
Ok thanks bro, the dreams are pretty scary, sometimes it'll be nothing more than an extremely menacing noise closing in, just a simple noise with no complexity.
other times it's more severely fucked.

>> No.12049700

>>12049634
Dennet is the biggest brainlet in a field designed for brainlets

>> No.12049718

>>12049686
>sometimes it'll be nothing more than an extremely menacing noise closing in, just a simple noise with no complexity

This sounds obvious. But is it possible there is something like a truck driving past in the early hours of the morning? I'm saying this because I had the same issue and I stayed up and discovered that was what it was.

>> No.12049732

>>12049700
tbf, this probably belongs on /lit/. But Dan can't help but make dumb empirical claims with zero science education.
And people hand him millions for it.
He's no brainlet for doing it.

>> No.12049733

>>12049634
brain scans do not exist and have never been performed on sleeping people
t. dennett

>> No.12049739

Explain the dream I had where I was in my home town, but everything was a bit weird and different. You literally can't, fuck off Santa.

>> No.12049751

>>12049634
More like serious philosopher of the clamped mind.

>> No.12049785
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>>12049635
>instantaneous memory insertion at the moment of the awakening

>> No.12050833

>>12049634
I don't believe that he said this. Can I get a source?