There will be courses on Dennett all over the world in the future. It doesn't get much better than Dennett. I like his idea of pragmatic glasses. He didn't word it like that but he should have. Consonances are easier to remember and it sounds cool.
''Schrödinger's theory is fighting against the second law of thermodynamics to create structure and information over time in living things...'' - well I don't think it's the right way to put it. Nothing can 'fight' or 'work against' the second law of thermodynamics, our perfectly 'ordered' living systems are actually always increasing in entropy. Our perceived 'orderliness' is impossible without increase in free energy.
I always enjoy Dennett's presentations, and consider him to be one of the best thinkers alive today.
Dennett begins at 7:20
There will be courses on Dennett all over the world in the future. It doesn't get much better than Dennett. I like his idea of pragmatic glasses. He didn't word it like that but he should have. Consonances are easier to remember and it sounds cool.
''Schrödinger's theory is fighting against the second law of thermodynamics to create structure and information over time in living things...'' - well I don't think it's the right way to put it. Nothing can 'fight' or 'work against' the second law of thermodynamics, our perfectly 'ordered' living systems are actually always increasing in entropy. Our perceived 'orderliness' is impossible without increase in free energy.