{"id":23725394,"date":"2008-07-24T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2008\/07\/24\/http-ase-tufts-edu-cogstud-papers-explainingmagic-pdf\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T10:18:35","slug":"http-ase-tufts-edu-cogstud-papers-explainingmagic-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=23725394","title":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/cogstud\/papers\/explainingmagic.pdf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon Review of : <a href='http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/cogstud\/papers\/explainingmagic.pdf'>http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/cogstud\/papers\/explainingmagic.pdf<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/click_redir.php?t=4993bddea33c5&#038;src=blog&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fase.tufts.edu%2Fcogstud%2Fpapers%2Fexplainingmagic.pdf'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The clothes have no emperor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"display : block; margin : 15px 30px 20px 30px; padding : 10px 10px 10px 20px; border-left : 2px solid #aaa; font : normal 1.2em Lucida Casual, Helvetica; color : #888;width : 650px; background : #111;\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"3\">*EXPLAINING THE &#8220;MAGIC&#8221;<br \/>\nOF CONSCIOUSNESS*<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nDANIEL DENNETT<br \/>\nTufts University<\/p>\n<p>Is the view supported that consciousness is a mysterious phenomenon and cannot succumb, even with much effort, to the standard methods of cognitive science? The lecture, using the analogy of the magician&#8217;s praxis, attempts to highlight a strong but little supported intuition that is one of the strongest supporters of this view. The analogy can be highly illuminating, as the following account by LEE SIEGEL on the reception of her work on magic can illustrate it: &#8220;I&#8221;m writing a book on magic&#8221;, I explain, and I&#8217;m asked, &#8220;Real magic?&#8221; By <i>real magic<\/i> people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. &#8220;No&#8221;, I answer: &#8220;Conjuring tricks, not real magic&#8221;. <i>Real magic<\/i>, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not <i>real magic<\/i>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/cogstud\/papers\/explainingmagic.pdf The clothes have no emperor. *EXPLAINING THE &#8220;MAGIC&#8221; OF CONSCIOUSNESS* DANIEL DENNETT Tufts University Is the view supported that consciousness is a mysterious phenomenon and cannot succumb, even with much effort, to the standard methods &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=23725394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23725394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23725394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23725394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23725394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}