According to the The New York Times, Daniel Dennett has a new book coming out entitled Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. Here are a couple of tidbits from the NYT piece:
The self? Simply a “center of narrative gravity,” a convenient fiction that allows us to integrate various neuronal data streams.
The elusive subjective conscious experience — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain — that philosophers call qualia? Sheer illusion.
This sure sounds like the sort of sophistry Dennett is known for. Selves are fictions that allow us — selves — to integrate data streams. I hope I will be forgiven for finding that unintelligible.
Now which is more likely to be true, that qualia are "sheer illusion" or that Dennett is a sophist?
You know my answer. Here are a couple of anti-Dennett posts:
Dennett's Dismissal of Dualism
Others, of equal trenchancy, are in the Dennett category.