That's a lot of nots. So you are saying that Dennett says that the brain might be reducible[1]?
I don't think that's a strong claim or that it even qualifies as a claim at all. Lots of things might decompose into simple components if subjected to the right analysis, very few things definitely won't - for example many clever people have spent a great deal of time attempting to reduce quantum and cosmic scale physics to simple intuitively founded laws... If Dennett's claim is that the human brain is the same order of object as the universe I can accept it only if we agree that all objects share the same order. Where does that get us?
[1] Apologies, I don't know what reductible means, but guessed typo - I'm open to education though and unworried by typos!
I don't think that's a strong claim or that it even qualifies as a claim at all. Lots of things might decompose into simple components if subjected to the right analysis, very few things definitely won't - for example many clever people have spent a great deal of time attempting to reduce quantum and cosmic scale physics to simple intuitively founded laws... If Dennett's claim is that the human brain is the same order of object as the universe I can accept it only if we agree that all objects share the same order. Where does that get us?
[1] Apologies, I don't know what reductible means, but guessed typo - I'm open to education though and unworried by typos!