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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel Dennett | Talks at Google

Talks at Google · 129.3K views · 2013-05-22 · 1:01:45

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Philosopher Daniel Dennett visits Google to discuss his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, describing thought experiments and thinking tools across psychology, biology, computer science and physics.

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Pointed to as an accessible introduction to intuition pumps as thinking tools, and shared in remembrance after Dennett's death.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2024

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aggerdy · 2015-12 · Recommendation

Found the article to be a good summary of a lot of concepts I had encountered on their own, but hadn't seen together in list form before. If you enjoyed this, you might find Daniel Dennett's "Intuition Pumps and Tools for Thinking" interesting [1]. I would highly recommend "The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts Methods" by Julian Baggini and Peter Fosl as well [2]. - [1] Link to Talk at Google By Dennett: [VIDEO] - [2] Link to pdf: [LINK]

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AlbertCory · 2024-04 · Reference

So sad. I was on the team that brought him to Google, and my task was to get his signature on the video release form. Here's the talk: [VIDEO] I told him that his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea was one of the few where, when I got to the end, I immediately wanted to go back to the beginning and read it again. He said, "I'm not sure that's a good thing."

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passion__desire · 2021-12 · Reference

[LINK] You can`t do much carpentry with your bare hands and you can`t do much thinking with your bare brain. - Bo Dahlbom, quoted by Daniel Dennett in his book "Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking" [VIDEO] (talk by Daniel on Google Campus)

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