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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. (10[1])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 (10[1])and there is no “hard problem” of its title concept. For 10 points, name this thinker who wrote Consciousness Explained. ■END■

ANSWER: Daniel Dennett [or Daniel Clement Dennett III]
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Joel MilesMinnesota BIowa State7710
Bryan UgazArizona StateMinnesota C10810