Daniel Dennett
Philosopher of mind: consciousness as brain process, compatibilist free will, religion as natural
18 videos analysed · 135 quotes checked word for word · updated 2026-10-18
Key facts
- Born in Boston in 1942, he studied at Harvard and Oxford and taught at Tufts University for five decades. Wikipédia 2024 · Daniel Dennett
- He died on 19 April 2024, aged 82. Wikipédia 2024 · Daniel Dennett
Positions
click a row to see the evidenceHe was a vocal atheist. After a serious heart operation in 2006 he thanked doctors and 'goodness', and said this was not a way of saying 'Thank God'. In 2007 he said there are 'plenty of good reasons for believing that God does not exist', and later that without a positive argument for God we should assume there is none.
- He says there are simply no good reasons to believe God exists, so the burden of proof lies on the believer; with no positive argument, we should assume there is no God. Video 2007 · Good Reasons for "Believing" in…2
- Belief in God has natural explanations: there are plenty of natural arguments explaining why such a false belief would arise, so no divine cause is needed. Video 2016 · Daniel Dennett - Arguments for…
- Many people only believe in belief in God: they think it is good to believe, and that belief erodes under unrelenting skepticism. His advice to believers is: don't be angry, be amused, be proud. Video 2007 · Good Reasons for "Believing" in…2
Purpose looks to the future, and a purely physical process cannot refer to something that does not exist yet: purpose has to come from a mind.
He answers that purposes are not handed down from a great purpose-giver: they emerge from the bottom up out of purposeless processes, which he calls the genius of Darwin's idea. He tells Ward to look at predictive coding in neuroscience.
Mental states result from physical brain processes. He thought the idea of qualia is too confused to be a reason to doubt this. In his words: 'It's just machinery all the way down', with no 'magical pearl of mind stuff'. He added that consciousness exists but is not what we naively think: a valuable user illusion.
- Consciousness is not a magical 'pearl' of mind stuff: it is the organization of the brain, machinery all the way down, and it requires no revolution in physics. Video 2023 · Daniel Dennett: Philosophy,…23
- Consciousness is a user illusion, a very useful one: it exists, but it is not what we think it is. He aims to shake our confidence that we know our own minds, since everyone believes they are an expert on consciousness. Video 2003 · The illusion of consciousness |…2
- Qualia, the supposed intrinsic feel of experience, do not exist: 'there's no such thing as intrinsic redness'; the term is a philosopher's term of art, and only differences that make a difference matter. Video 2023 · Daniel Dennett on the Mysteries…23
- Dualist arguments mistake a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity; the pull of the inner witness is 'Cartesian gravity'. He says he does not think there is a hard problem: it is vitalism reborn, a trick of the imagination. Video 2024 · Daniel Dennett: Consciousness,…23
Even a being identical to us in behaviour could lack inner experience: this zombie shows that consciousness is something more, a hard problem.
He calls the philosophical zombie a blatant mistake and believing in it as bad an idea as one can have. He says the hard problem is vitalism reborn, and that qualia matter only if they make a difference.
Mary, a scientist who knows everything about colour but has never seen red, learns something new when she sees it: so there are facts that physical science leaves out.
Defends : There are no qualia: Dennett's intuition pumpsCriticizes : The hard problem of consciousness and zombies, Mind distinct from body
A compatibilist. In Elbow Room he argues that the kinds of free will that support responsibility are not undermined by science. On video he says he is 'just a compatibilist' and that libertarian free will is 'a philosopher's fantasy'. What matters is control: 'I can't control the wind, but I can trim the sails'.
- The free will worth wanting is being in control, not being free of causation: the skier is as determined as the boulder, but the skier is in control. Control and causation are not the same thing. Video 2021 · Daniel Dennett on Free Will:…
- Determinism does not make the future inevitable: what is avoidable is what you see coming, and a good avoider is one thanks to determinism. Being unpredictable to those around you is enough to have 'elbow room'. Video 2008 · Dennett on free will and…23
- Libertarian free will, which needs indeterminism, is 'a philosopher's fantasy' and adds nothing: determinism or indeterminism makes no difference to what makes an agent responsible. Video 2022 · Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett.…2
- Free will is a set of competences, moral competences, that most of us cherish. Responsibility is one of civilization's great inventions, and we lose it if we say people are not responsible; so free will is not a metaphysical condition but an achievement, and it is what makes responsibility possible. Video 2024 · Daniel Dennett: Consciousness,…2
- To those who say neuroscience shows we are not free, he answers that going from a few damaged brains to everyone is a mistaken extrapolation, like an induction gone wrong: some people are wired wrong, not all. Video 2022 · Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett.…
You are changing the subject: free will as people mean it needs freedom from causation, and that idea is incoherent, so the free will people think they have does not exist.
He answers that the core of free will is not the denial of determinism. Our model of a free agent says nothing about indeterminism: what matters is telling free from unfree agents, and that works either way.
Take Charles Whitman, the tower shooter with a brain tumour: his actions came from his biology, and for all of us it is brain tumours all the way down, so nobody is truly responsible.
He calls this a mistaken extrapolation, like an induction gone wrong. We are not all disabled: some people, like Whitman, are wired wrong in a way that excuses them, but that does not make everyone so.
See 1 more objections
Responsibility in the full sense needs basic desert, and determinism rules that out; you only keep a thin, forward-looking version under the old word.
He says basic moral desert is a red herring that does not exist. The desert that matters is the everyday one, as when we hope the better team deserves to win, and it does not depend on determinism.
Defends : The only freedom worth wantingCriticizes : The swerve: atoms deviate, so the will is free, The intellect that would see the whole future, The brain acts before we decide
He called himself 'completely a consequentialist' about justifying holding people responsible. He thought punishment only serves to give the law credibility and stability, and rejected retribution with no future benefit.
He called for a scientific, no-holds-barred study of religion as one natural phenomenon among many. He called religion 'a very valuable early prop, a prosthetic crutch' that can now fade away, and said there are no good reasons for believing in God.
- Reasons for declaring belief in God are not the same as reasons for believing in God; since there are no good reasons for the second, he sees no ground for believing. Video 2007 · Good Reasons for "Believing" in…
- Religion was a very valuable early prop, a prosthetic crutch, and a natural phenomenon to be studied; but it has socially dangerous features, which should lead each believer to ask 'what if I'm wrong?'. Video 2018 · Daniel Dennett on our…23
When evidence cannot decide, we have the right to believe, because some questions matter too much to leave open.
Meaning is not given from above. 'The creation of meaning is really what life is all about.' He added that meaning is real but depends on evolution: before there was life, nothing meant anything.
- Before there was life, nothing meant anything: meaning appears with living minds, so it is created by us and not given from outside. Video 2024 · Daniel Dennett on Mortality, the…
- Creating meaning is what life is all about; he adds that we should go for meanings that really matter. Video 2018 · Daniel Dennett on our…
A life without a final end is not possible: meaning must be given by something beyond us, otherwise it is only what we invent.
No sourced position yet on: Source of knowledge, Certainty, Status of morality, Human nature.
On the big questions
Does God exist?Atheism
An open atheist and one of the Four Horsemen.
- He says there are simply no good reasons to believe God exists, so the burden of proof lies on the believer; with no positive argument, we should assume there is no God. Video 2007 · Good Reasons for "Believing" in…2
- Belief in God has natural explanations: there are plenty of natural arguments explaining why such a false belief would arise, so no divine cause is needed. Video 2016 · Daniel Dennett - Arguments for…
- Many people only believe in belief in God: they think it is good to believe, and that belief erodes under unrelenting skepticism. His advice to believers is: don't be angry, be amused, be proud. Video 2007 · Good Reasons for "Believing" in…2
Purpose looks to the future, and a purely physical process cannot refer to something that does not exist yet: purpose has to come from a mind.
He answers that purposes are not handed down from a great purpose-giver: they emerge from the bottom up out of purposeless processes, which he calls the genius of Darwin's idea. He tells Ward to look at predictive coding in neuroscience.
Does life have a meaning?A meaning to create
Meaning is created, not given: 'the creation of meaning is really what life is all about'.
- Before there was life, nothing meant anything: meaning appears with living minds, so it is created by us and not given from outside. Video 2024 · Daniel Dennett on Mortality, the…
- Creating meaning is what life is all about; he adds that we should go for meanings that really matter. Video 2018 · Daniel Dennett on our…
A life without a final end is not possible: meaning must be given by something beyond us, otherwise it is only what we invent.
Are we free?Free without absolute free will
Freedom is real as a skill of control and deliberation, even if the world is determined.
- The free will worth wanting is being in control, not being free of causation: the skier is as determined as the boulder, but the skier is in control. Control and causation are not the same thing. Video 2021 · Daniel Dennett on Free Will:…
- Determinism does not make the future inevitable: what is avoidable is what you see coming, and a good avoider is one thanks to determinism. Being unpredictable to those around you is enough to have 'elbow room'. Video 2008 · Dennett on free will and…23
- Libertarian free will, which needs indeterminism, is 'a philosopher's fantasy' and adds nothing: determinism or indeterminism makes no difference to what makes an agent responsible. Video 2022 · Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett.…2
- Free will is a set of competences, moral competences, that most of us cherish. Responsibility is one of civilization's great inventions, and we lose it if we say people are not responsible; so free will is not a metaphysical condition but an achievement, and it is what makes responsibility possible. Video 2024 · Daniel Dennett: Consciousness,…2
- To those who say neuroscience shows we are not free, he answers that going from a few damaged brains to everyone is a mistaken extrapolation, like an induction gone wrong: some people are wired wrong, not all. Video 2022 · Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett.…
You are changing the subject: free will as people mean it needs freedom from causation, and that idea is incoherent, so the free will people think they have does not exist.
He answers that the core of free will is not the denial of determinism. Our model of a free agent says nothing about indeterminism: what matters is telling free from unfree agents, and that works either way.
Take Charles Whitman, the tower shooter with a brain tumour: his actions came from his biology, and for all of us it is brain tumours all the way down, so nobody is truly responsible.
He calls this a mistaken extrapolation, like an induction gone wrong. We are not all disabled: some people, like Whitman, are wired wrong in a way that excuses them, but that does not make everyone so.
See 1 more objections
Responsibility in the full sense needs basic desert, and determinism rules that out; you only keep a thin, forward-looking version under the old word.
He says basic moral desert is a red herring that does not exist. The desert that matters is the everyday one, as when we hope the better team deserves to win, and it does not depend on determinism.
Defends : The only freedom worth wantingCriticizes : The swerve: atoms deviate, so the will is free, The intellect that would see the whole future, The brain acts before we decide
The question on the site: all the argumentsWhat makes something right?Consequences
He is a consequentialist about holding people responsible, and said no one's approval, God's included, makes something good.
- He is a consequentialist about holding people responsible: punishment has no point except to create credibility and stability in the law, like the referee giving a red card. Retributivism, punishing with no future benefit, is an inflated philosophical idea. Video 2021 · Daniel Dennett on Free Will:…23
- No one's approval, God's included, makes something good; he doesn't see how a disembodied mind could ground morality at all. A better ground is what people conclude when they think carefully about it together. Video 2018 · Daniel Dennett on our…2
Goodness is a fact about the universe, which physicalism cannot place; it fits a divine mind founded on a morally obliging reality.
He grants that a disembodied mind cannot be strictly ruled out, but says he does not see how such a mind could ground morality at all: why should we care what it thinks we should do?
Persons must be treated as ends, never merely as means, so punishing someone only to create stability in the law uses them as a tool.
Defends : The Euthyphro dilemma
The question on the site: all the argumentsIs the mind the brain?The mind comes from matter
The mind is what the brain does. He denied that the hard problem is a separate problem: he expected it to be solved along with the easy ones.
- Consciousness is not a magical 'pearl' of mind stuff: it is the organization of the brain, machinery all the way down, and it requires no revolution in physics. Video 2023 · Daniel Dennett: Philosophy,…23
- Consciousness is a user illusion, a very useful one: it exists, but it is not what we think it is. He aims to shake our confidence that we know our own minds, since everyone believes they are an expert on consciousness. Video 2003 · The illusion of consciousness |…2
- Qualia, the supposed intrinsic feel of experience, do not exist: 'there's no such thing as intrinsic redness'; the term is a philosopher's term of art, and only differences that make a difference matter. Video 2023 · Daniel Dennett on the Mysteries…23
- Dualist arguments mistake a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity; the pull of the inner witness is 'Cartesian gravity'. He says he does not think there is a hard problem: it is vitalism reborn, a trick of the imagination. Video 2024 · Daniel Dennett: Consciousness,…23
Even a being identical to us in behaviour could lack inner experience: this zombie shows that consciousness is something more, a hard problem.
He calls the philosophical zombie a blatant mistake and believing in it as bad an idea as one can have. He says the hard problem is vitalism reborn, and that qualia matter only if they make a difference.
Mary, a scientist who knows everything about colour but has never seen red, learns something new when she sees it: so there are facts that physical science leaves out.
Defends : There are no qualia: Dennett's intuition pumpsCriticizes : The hard problem of consciousness and zombies, Mind distinct from body
The question on the site: all the argumentsWho am I, really?No fixed self
He describes the self as a user-interface effect, not a discrete part of the brain.
- The self is not a discrete part of the brain: there is no General Groves in the brain, no bird's-eye view in charge, and yet it seems that someone is in charge. It is a user-interface effect of many parts working together. Video 2017 · If Brains are Computers, Who…
- He does not deny that we exist: 'I can feel, I am a person', and 'you're the user of my consciousness'. We even have a soul, but it is made of lots of tiny robots which have no souls. Video 2023 · Daniel Dennett: Philosophy,…23
It is the person, the self or soul, that uses the brain; hard reasoning is not just handing a problem over to your brain.
He asks what else you would want to make you do it than your brain. He says that we do have a soul, but one made of lots of tiny robots which have no souls.
I am a thinking thing, one and the same through time: the self is a real unity, not a story.
Defends : The self as a center of narrative gravity
The question on the site: all the argumentsShould we believe without proof?No belief without evidence
No good reasons to believe in God, so no belief without them. He saw religion as a natural phenomenon and an early crutch.
- Reasons for declaring belief in God are not the same as reasons for believing in God; since there are no good reasons for the second, he sees no ground for believing. Video 2007 · Good Reasons for "Believing" in…
- Religion was a very valuable early prop, a prosthetic crutch, and a natural phenomenon to be studied; but it has socially dangerous features, which should lead each believer to ask 'what if I'm wrong?'. Video 2018 · Daniel Dennett on our…23
When evidence cannot decide, we have the right to believe, because some questions matter too much to leave open.
In their words
of course consciousness exists. It just isn't what you think it is.
I can't control the wind, but I can trim the sails.
It's just, it's machinery all the way down.
there simply are no good reasons for believing that God exists
1 more quotes
the creation of meaning is really what life is all about
How the ideas evolved
Click a step for details1984Elbow Room
He publishes his defense of a compatibilist free will, subtitled The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting.
1988Quining Qualia
He argues with a series of thought experiments, his intuition pumps, that there are no qualia in the traditional sense.
1991Consciousness Explained
He presents a materialist account of consciousness, the multiple drafts model.
2003TED talk: the illusion of consciousness
He sets out to shake our confidence that we are authorities on our own minds, and says everyone resists theories of consciousness because everyone thinks they are an expert.
In their words« I want to shake your confidence that you know your own innermost minds »He sets out to shake our confidence that we are authoritative about our own consciousness. watch
« The reason for that is that everybody's an expert on consciousness. »He says people resist theories of consciousness because everyone believes they are an expert on it just by being conscious. watch
2006Breaking the Spell
His book studies religion as a natural phenomenon. The same year he writes 'Thank Goodness!' after surgery.
2007Talk at the Atheist Alliance: good reasons for believing in God?
He argues there are no good reasons to believe God exists, and that many people 'believe in belief in God' without believing in God themselves.
In their words« there simply are no good reasons for believing that God exists »He says there are no good reasons to believe God exists, and many good reasons to disbelieve. watch
« there's plenty of good reasons for believing that God does not exist »He says there are plenty of good reasons for believing that God does not exist. watch
« reasons for declaring belief in God are not identical to reasons for believing in God »He distinguishes strategic reasons for declaring belief in God from actual reasons to believe it. watch
2009Debate with Alvin Plantinga
At a philosophy meeting they debate whether science and religion are compatible. It becomes a 2011 book.
2014Review of Sam Harris's Free Will
He writes a long critical review. Both accept determinism, but Harris says free will is an illusion and Dennett says it is worth wanting.
2017On AI
He thinks strong AI is possible in principle but harder than many expect. He warns that people tend to anthropomorphize AI systems, and thinks superintelligence is at least 50 years away.
2023Natural Philosophy Forum lecture on trusting our brains
He restates that he does not deny consciousness, only that it is what we think it is, and calls it a valuable user illusion shared through language.
In their words« the view of us other denials is not that Consciousness doesn't exist but it isn't what you think it is »He says he denies not that consciousness exists but that it is what we naively think it is. watch
« Consciousness is a user illusion it's a very valuable user illusion »He calls consciousness a valuable user illusion that is shared through language with others. watch
« they can't get their head around the idea that a theory that doesn't honor what they think of as sacred truths can't be right »He says critics of his denial of qualia treat it as a moral issue and are simply wrong. watch
2024One of his last interviews: free will as moral competence
On Robinson's Podcast he defines free will as a set of moral competences most adults have and can lose, and rejects retribution as an inflated philosophical idea.
In their words« human animal Consciousness is a low dimensional shadow of human consciousness »He says animal consciousness is a low-dimensional shadow of human consciousness, far more impoverished than a six-year-old's. watch
« Free Will is a matter of having a set of competences you might call them moral competences »He defines free will as a set of moral competences that most adults have and that one can lose. watch
« we understand that there are people that we cannot trust to control themselves they don't have free will but it's something most of us cherish »He says some people lack free will because they cannot control themselves, but most of us have it and cherish it. watch
The arguments 10
The site's arguments they defend or criticize, and why. Click a title to see the full argument.
His own argument against qualia. 'Do qualia exist? No. Qualia is a philosopher's term of art.'
His own compatibilism: the freedom worth wanting. The skier and the boulder are both determined, but only the skier is in control.
The self is like a center of gravity: a useful fiction of the theorist, with no physical parts of its own.
On the Euthyphro question he says no one's approval, God's included, makes something good: reasons must be given in public.
He denied there is a hard problem: he called it vitalism reborn and expected it to dissolve once the many lesser problems are solved. He called the philosophical zombie 'a blatant mistake'.
He says Searle misrepresents the kind of program a computer would run: a program that passes the Turing test would take trillions of sheets of paper to simulate by hand, so imagining a trivial one misleads.
At 17 he found Descartes's dualism 'beautiful, but it's wrong', and spent his career explaining why. He calls the pull of the inner witness 'Cartesian gravity'.
He wants to 'confront that tradition and say it was a mistake': linking free will to indeterminism, from Democritus and the swerve of atoms to quantum theories.
He presents Laplace's determinism, in which the next instant can be predicted to a certainty, but says determinism is 'simply irrelevant' to what matters for free will: what is true across the neighbouring possible worlds.
He rejects the conclusion drawn from neuroscience: going from a few damaged brains to everyone is 'a mathematical induction gone wrong'. Some people are wired wrong, not all.
Allies and opponents
Richard DawkinsClose
Shares his adaptationist view of evolution. Dennett wrote an afterword to the 1999 edition of The Extended Phenotype.
Christopher HitchensClose
Fellow member of the Four Horsemen.
Sam HarrisSparring partner
Fellow Horseman, but they disagree on free will. On video he tells Harris he is 'a compatibilist in all but name', and later says Harris betrays 'Cartesian hankerings'.
David ChalmersSparring partner
Opposed on the hard problem of consciousness, yet on friendly terms (the interviewer calls him 'our mutual friend').
John SearleSparring partner
They co-authored the book Neuroscience and Philosophy (2007).
Gilbert RyleInfluence
Dennett did his Oxford doctorate under Gilbert Ryle.
Willard Van Orman QuineInfluence
He studied under W. V. Quine at Harvard.
MMichael GrazianoClose
He calls Graziano's attention schema theory 'close to my view'.
David HumeInfluence
He names Hume as his favorite philosopher and builds on his definition of liberty.
Alvin PlantingaDisagrees
Debated whether science and religion are compatible.
Robert SapolskyDisagrees
He names Sapolsky among those who say there is no free will, and says he is wrong on this.
RRoger PenroseDisagrees
He says Penrose's argument that brains are not computers is 'full of holes'.
KKeith WardDisagrees
Debated whether we are more than matter: purpose from the top down against purposeless processes.
GGregg CarusoDisagrees
Debated free will: he rejects Caruso's 'basic moral desert' as a red herring.
Donald HoffmanDisagrees
He says Hoffman took the user-illusion idea 'one step too high' in concluding that only consciousness exists.
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- Daniel Dennett, How, When, and Why Can We Trust Our Brains? | Natural Philosophy Forum Lecture, 2023 YouTube (Natural Philosophy Forum) · 2023
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- Daniel Dennett on Mortality, the Mind, AI and the Meaning of Life YouTube (republication) · 2024
- Daniel Dennett: Philosophy, Robert Sapolsky, Human Clones, Free Will, Existence YouTube · 2023
- Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds | Robinson's Podcast #194 YouTube (Robinson's Podcast) · 2024
- Daniel Dennett on our Consciousness, God and other Illusions | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur YouTube (SRF Kultur) · 2018
- Dr. Daniel Dennett — Freedom Evolves: Free Will, Determinism, and Evolution YouTube (republication) · 2019
- Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? YouTube (republication) · 2008
- Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? YouTube (republication) · 2008
- Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett. Free Will Debate. YouTube (republication) · 2022
- Daniel Dennett: Philosophy, Robert Sapolsky, Human Clones, Free Will, Existence YouTube · 2023
- Daniel Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind | Closer To Truth Chats YouTube (Closer To Truth) · 2023
- Daniel Dennett: Philosophy, Robert Sapolsky, Human Clones, Free Will, Existence YouTube · 2023
- Daniel Dennett: Philosophy, Robert Sapolsky, Human Clones, Free Will, Existence YouTube · 2023
- Daniel Dennett: Philosophy, Robert Sapolsky, Human Clones, Free Will, Existence YouTube · 2023
- Daniel Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind | Closer To Truth Chats YouTube (Closer To Truth) · 2023
- Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds | Robinson's Podcast #194 YouTube (Robinson's Podcast) · 2024
- Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? YouTube (republication) · 2008
- Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? YouTube (republication) · 2008
- Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett. Free Will Debate. YouTube (republication) · 2022
- Daniel Dennett: Philosophy, Robert Sapolsky, Human Clones, Free Will, Existence YouTube · 2023