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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. In (10[1])Elbow Room, (10[1])this thinker characterized John Searle’s (10[1])Chinese Room thought experiment as an intuition pump. A work by this thinker that describes “Cartesian Theater” claims that philosophical (10[1])zombies can’t exist and there is no “hard problem” of its (10[1])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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaTennessee7810
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicGeorgia Tech B8010
Jack LewisMTSUAlabama8510
Quentin MotGeorgia Tech AVanderbilt B10510
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AHarding11610