I like Dennett a lot precisely because he's badly behaved and disrespectful of other philosophers.
Free Will is a completely meaningless concept. I don't know what it means in the real world, or how I could test for it, or what would be different if it did or didn't exist, and neither does anyone else. I don't know why people spend so much energy squabbling about it.
At least consciousness (which Dennett might but in the same category... something that affects _precisely_ nothing) is something I can experience.
Free Will is a completely meaningless concept. I don't know what it means in the real world, or how I could test for it, or what would be different if it did or didn't exist, and neither does anyone else. I don't know why people spend so much energy squabbling about it.
At least consciousness (which Dennett might but in the same category... something that affects _precisely_ nothing) is something I can experience.