Question

In an article, this thinker related being told by a group of Houston brain surgeons to simply think of a procedure as “a mere stretching of the nerves” to retrieve a nuclear warhead from under Tulsa, Oklahoma. In another article, this thinker describes a hypothetical wine-tasting machine used by the Gallo Brothers that will never experience the real taste of wine. This author of “Where Am I?” put forward a physicalist “multiple drafts” model in a 1991 book. In Elbow Room, this thinker characterized John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment as an intuition pump. A work by this thinker that describes “Cartesian Theater” claims that philosophical zombies can’t exist and there is no “hard problem” of its title concept. For 10 points, name this thinker who wrote Consciousness (10[1])Explained. ■END■

ANSWER: Daniel Dennett [or Daniel Clement Dennett III]
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