Daniel Dennett

The interviewer and seem not to really coincide with much of their philosophical viewpoints.The interviewer wanted to prove many of the points that Daniel Dennett believed in wrong, it seemed kind of a hostile interview.

But one of the points that I myself do not agree with is that someone else could essentially know what it is to be me. I am me and no one else can be me. My life experiences and genetics shape my thoughts, emotions, actions, and every other part of me. Just because a person might know what I do, they know my patterns and could have a good guess at what I might do, does not mean they can predict everything about me. Daniel Dennett used the example of a bat and then compared it to humans. But the consciousness of a bat and of a human is extremely different. Although we are both animals the differences between a human and bat far out weight the similarities. How do we know that a bat has a thought process or memory. Does a bat use it's past experiences in daily life and if so the decisions that it makes based upon these thought process are animal basic life functions of a bat, like where to find food, or that there are tree in certain areas, and where it sleeps. Nothing compares to the process that humans go through when making decisions. Our emotions and reactions are unique to each and every individual, there are no to people who are exactly alike personality wise, not even genetic twins. So how can a person who just watches me know how to be me?? That is preposterous.