For years Dr. Dennett has argued that qualia, in the airy way they have been defined in philosophy, are illusory.

多年来，Dennett博士一直在争论“感觉”的问题，这个感觉在哲学里被称为虚幻。

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If the hardware and software could be made sophisticated enough, there would be no functional difference, Dr. Dennett suggested, between a human oenophile and the machine.

Dennett博士解释说：如果硬件和软件都能做得非常精密，那么一个品酒师和一台机器之间就没有什么功能上的区别了。

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"It looks like an opposite of a theory, because he doesn't explain how it happens at all, " Dennett says.

FORBES: Sciences and Medicine

Dennett, Jerry Coyne, Simon DeDeo, Massimo Pigliucci, Janna Levin, Owen Flanagan, Rebecca Goldstein, David Poeppel, Alex Rosenberg and Don Ross.

FORBES: What Happens When You Lock Scientists And Philosophers In A Room Together

As well as the reviews, the book contains a fractious debate with Mr Dennett, and a somewhat more measured one with Mr Chalmers.

ECONOMIST: Philosophy of consciousness