"Where Am I?" Discussion Questions

Daniel Dennett
  1. After he undergoes the surgery, Dennett wonders where he is. What are the possibilities he discusses?
  2. What is Dennett’s response to the suggestion that he is where his body is?
  3. How does Dennett argue for the conclusion that physicalism is false? Reconstruct his argument and then evaluate it.
  4. How does Dennett respond to the notion that Yorick and Hubert might be connected to two different bodies at once?
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