Added some, sorry. Cranes vs. skyhooks is the central metaphor of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea but doesn’t seem to have its own page anywhere; it seems to me akin to EY’s notion of “follow-the-improbability”.
“Figment” is from Consciousness Explained; it’s sort of the notion of a volume of imagined colour. Dennett used it in a discussion of e.g. the retinal blind spot, to make the distinction between the brain’s actively “filling in” a missing signal (which he takes to be a confused reification) versus the brain simply not caring about the missing signal.
Added some, sorry. Cranes vs. skyhooks is the central metaphor of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea but doesn’t seem to have its own page anywhere; it seems to me akin to EY’s notion of “follow-the-improbability”.
“Figment” is from Consciousness Explained; it’s sort of the notion of a volume of imagined colour. Dennett used it in a discussion of e.g. the retinal blind spot, to make the distinction between the brain’s actively “filling in” a missing signal (which he takes to be a confused reification) versus the brain simply not caring about the missing signal.