Dennett and Harari, The Intentional Stance, and the Road to Serfdom through AI faking Personhood

Part I

More than a half century ago, Dan Dennett re-introduced a kind of (as-if) teleological explanation into natural philosophy by coining and articulation (over the course of a few decades of refinement), the 'intentional stance' and its role in identifying so-called 'intentional systems,' which just are those entities to which ascription of the intentional…