There's been somewhat frequent coverage of Daniel Dennett on Lesswrong:

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude

"Where Am I?", by Daniel Dennett

Dennett's heterophenomenology

My personal favorite: Zombies: The Movie

I've written a book called Simulating Dennett nearly five years ago now (if you are considering an academic career, keep that slow paced speed in mind, for good or ill). It summarizes Dennett's philosophy  while trying to make the reader able to think like Dennett. It seemed to me at the time, and still does now, that Dennett's kind of mind is very interesting and we should have more of those, so I tried my best to create a Dennett installer in book form.

Simulating Dennett: Tools and Constructions of a Naturalist

Is the 244 pages that ensued. Portuguese or Spanish reading skills advised. Or use it to learn Portuguese prior to your trip to Rio, Pantanal, Iguaçu Falls and the Amazon Forest. (for legal reasons I've chopped out the second half of the file, but there are instructions on how to get it when you get to the end of the first half)

Abstract

This dissertation intends to provide the reader with an inner simulation of Daniel Dennett’s form of reasoning, spreading over his whole philosophy, emphasizing his treatment of patterns, the evolutionary algorithm, consciousness, and his use of illata, abstracta, semantic, and syntax, to carve nature at its joints, especially biology and the human mind. It recasts, in a new light, great part of his most important ideas, and reverse engineers what made him think in particular ways, walking the reader through similar pathways, fostering an active learning of a thinking style, above and beyond a mere exposition of the results obtained by this thinking style over the years.

Keywords: Daniel Dennett, Consciousness, Memetics, Intentional stance, Evolution,

Algorithm.

This Wednesday 2013-03-19 at 14:00 I’ll be presenting it as thesis in the University of São Paulo. Lesswrongers passing by Brazil, or the 20 of us who actually live here are welcome to join.

Here is the Facebook event.

The Transhumanist community in Brazil nearly coincides with the "read a few posts on Lesswrong" community.

So anyone nearby São Paulo is invited to join us in this event, to harness the let's take the streets climate around the country to talk about Transhumanism and have a picnic...      It will be by far the biggest event with Lesswrong readers to take place in Brazil, if, say, 8 people show up out of 28 confirmed and 18 maybes...

https://www.facebook.com/events/583621724994218/?ref=notif&notif_t=plan_user_joined

Here is the description in portuguese for those who'd like to attend and have no facebook.  Saturday, July 6. If anyone needs a translation to decide send me a private message or use google tradutor.

Cansado das manifestações Contra tudo aquilo que você é contra? Venha se manifestar A FAVOR de alguma coisa que você é a favor, mas não sabia que tem nome!! 

Venha defender a importância de modificar a condição humana usando tecnologia, o Transhumanismo. 

Vamos nos aglomerar, com mentes abertas, instrumentos musicais e comes e bebes, na Praça Alexandre Gusmão, ao lado do Parque Trianon, fazer um grande Piquenique das 15:00 até as 16:30 e subir em direção a Paulista, no vão do MASP. A favor de...

- A FAVOR do uso de tecnologia para tornar o ser humano mais cooperativo, altruísta, moral, utiltarista, gentil do que já é! 
- A FAVOR de um programa de incentivo a pesquisa contra o envelhecimento (anti-ageing)
- A FAVOR de aprimoramentos cognitivos que permitam às pessoas ser mais inteligentes, como o chocolate, o café, o Stavigile, e o Piracetam! 
- A FAVOR de um interesse maior em Ética no longo prazo, em particular a FAVOR de pesquisa e ação política que vise evitar Riscos Existenciais, como guerra Nuclear, Inteligência Artificial Não-amigável, Colapso Ambiental Global. 
- A FAVOR de pensar questões políticas quantitativamente, visando beneficiar o maior número da maneira que gere mais benefícios! 
- A FAVOR da liberdade de escolher seu modelo familiar e de relacionamento, de abortar, de garantir aos indivíduos o direito de intervir em seus corpos, mentes e vontades, independente de sua origem, orientação sexual, carga genética, predisposição instintiva, afinidade política e classe social.
- A FAVOR de modular a si mesmo para sentir mais amor e felicidade, seja através de prolongar a Oxitocina de seu relacionamento de longo prazo, seja induzindo a produção direta de Serotonina! 

Venha nos encontrar na Praça Alexandre Gusmão, e vamos lutar A FAVOR daquilo que queremos juntos! Porque se você não começar a mudar e convidar à mudança agora, quando acha que vai começar?!!