Google tells me Dennett referred to this, in arguing that there is nothing mysterious about consciousness, because it is just a set of many tricks.
It’s a shame that the niceness of the story of the tuned deck makes Dennett’s bad argument about consciousness more appealing.
Dennett’s argument that there is no hard problem of consciousness can be summarized thus:
Take the hard problem of consciousness.
Add in all the other things anybody has ever called “consciousness”.
Solve all those other issues one by one.
Conveniently forget about the hard problem of consciousness.
Google tells me Dennett referred to this, in arguing that there is nothing mysterious about consciousness, because it is just a set of many tricks.
It’s a shame that the niceness of the story of the tuned deck makes Dennett’s bad argument about consciousness more appealing.
Dennett’s argument that there is no hard problem of consciousness can be summarized thus:
Take the hard problem of consciousness.
Add in all the other things anybody has ever called “consciousness”.
Solve all those other issues one by one.
Conveniently forget about the hard problem of consciousness.