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Why does Dennett assert that human consciousness is "the last surviving
mystery"?
Human consciousness for Dennett is the last surviving mystery because unlike any
other mystery, human consciousness confuses us. Human consciousness
overwhelms our efforts to think about the phenomena. Even well-known thinkers
get tongue-tied whenever they talk about human consciousness. Til this day, many
people believe that human consciousness is nearly impossible to be demystified.

2. Dennett uses love and money as possible analogies for consciousness. Explain.
Love, money, and consciousness are phenomena that depend on their concepts.
Like love and money, consciousness is said to be something precious and obvious,
but the suspicion about it being very obvious is slowly becoming an illusion. Like
love and money, consciousness is highly dependent on its associated concepts. Like
love, consciousness has a biological base. Like money, consciousness can be
cultural, but not simply inherent.

3. Dennett prompts the reader to visualize a cow. What does this "imagined cow"
say about the nature of "mind stuff"?
Nothing is roughly cow shaped in our brain or eyeballs for us to be able to visualize
a cow. A cow came into existence, and mind stuff must be responsible for that
event. In contrast to brain stuff, mind stuff are witnessed. Mind stuff are
experienced by an experiencer, and their being thus experienced is what makes
them conscious events

4. Suppose a winery replaces human wine tasters with a machine. What would be
the issue concerning consciousness? Describe the perspective of functionalism.
Suppose a winery replaces human wine tasters with a machine whose control
functions is that of a human wine tasters brain, the machine would still be unable
to equate human performance. No mere machine, no matter how accurately it
mimics the brain processes of the human wine taster, would be capable of
appreciating a wine. You need consciousness for appreciation something no mere
machine has. Appreciating is the privilege of the mind, and not the brain.

5. What is dualism? Does Dennett accept or reject this view? Explain.

Dualism is a view about the mind and body being distinct things or substances.
Dennett rejects this view. For Dennett, adopting dualism is accepting defeat without
admitting it. Dualists have comfortably announced that they have no theory
whatever of how the mind works something, they insist, that is quite beyond
human comprehension. This antiscientific stance of dualism is the most
disqualifying feature for Dennett. Dennett admitted that he cannot totally knockdown dualism, but he said that accepting dualism is just like giving up on solving
the mysteries of consciousness that he believes would be solved if only people
would try and try.