topics: |  philosophy | brain | ai

What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is
about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of
Minds is to answer these questions, in general outline, and to show why these
two questions have to be answered together. What exists is one thing. What we
can know about is something else. But we know enough about minds, Dennett
argues, to know that one of the things that makes them different from
everything else in the universe is the way we know about them.'Provoking but
clarifying ... Daniel Dennett's book is a memorable and stimulating work of
popular scientific explanation. It thoroughly readjusts the reader's mental
image of what the mind is and how it got there but leaves one surprised that
the explanation can be ultimately so simple when the implications are so
vast' Anthony Smith, Observer