As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect basic or natural properties of the environment, but that they should serve our narcissistic purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.
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Daniel Dennett was a 20th-century American philosopher. Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Read more on Wikipedia →

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