This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his famous publication - On the Origin of Species. Darwin's "Strange Inversion of Reasoning" is a counterintuitive idea central to both biological and computer science which states that in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it.
Daniel Dennett, Ph. D. is a Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has been described as "a rare beast, a philosopher who pays attention to the discoveries of science" and "the philosopher of choice of the Artificial Intelligence community". Dennett's work addresses topics from an evolutionary standpoint, from what distinguishes human minds from animal minds, to how free will is compatible with a naturalist view of the world.
