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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 1:32 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Daniel Dennett

This is a big loss.

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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 1:56 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 1:23 pm)Foxaèr Wrote:
(April 19, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Daniel Dennett

Looks like @Gawdzilla Sama

I also thought of him as looking like a belligerent Father Christmas. 

Thump nailed it, though. Big, big loss.

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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 2:18 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Daniel Dennett

This one shook me.
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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 7:59 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 1:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(April 19, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Daniel Dennett

This is a big loss.

I've never been a fan of Dennett's work, but today on Twitter there are hundreds of tweets remembering what a thoughtful teacher he was, and how he treated even combative undergrads with respect and courtesy. 

These days university profs with his level of fame frequently turn out to have unpleasant episodes in their histories, exploiting that fame for sex or power. It's very nice indeed to hear that he was a genuinely good guy.
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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 10:36 pm
My sister Elaine, three years younger than I, due to inoperable brain cancer. Second younger sibling dead due to cancer. Arrgghh
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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 10:47 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 10:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: My sister Elaine, three years younger than I, due to inoperable brain cancer. Second younger sibling dead due to cancer. Arrgghh

My sympathy to you and your family.

Cancer sucks...a lot.
  
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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 10:47 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 10:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: My sister Elaine, three years younger than I, due to inoperable brain cancer. Second younger sibling dead due to cancer. Arrgghh

I'm so sorry for your losses, bud.

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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 10:52 pm
(April 19, 2024 at 10:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: My sister Elaine, three years younger than I, due to inoperable brain cancer. Second younger sibling dead due to cancer. Arrgghh

Truly sorry for your loss, my friend.
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RE: RIP thread
April 19, 2024 at 11:15 pm
My condolences.
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RE: RIP thread
April 20, 2024 at 6:28 am
(April 19, 2024 at 7:59 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(April 19, 2024 at 1:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: This is a big loss.

I've never been a fan of Dennett's work, but today on Twitter there are hundreds of tweets remembering what a thoughtful teacher he was, and how he treated even combative undergrads with respect and courtesy. 

These days university profs with his level of fame frequently turn out to have unpleasant episodes in their histories, exploiting that fame for sex or power. It's very nice indeed to hear that he was a genuinely good guy.

(Bold mine)

Of course you haven’t - Dennett was an original thinker. If he’d simply parroted Plato, Augustine, or Aquinas, you’d not be able to get enough of him.

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