Dennett is a great philosopher, he has a science fiction-question , where he is?

Question

In his story, Dennett, narrator, tells us his fictionary story which deals with his identity. In the story he presents two scenarios:

Scenario 1: Dennett gets divide into two; his body (Hamlet) and his brain (Yorick). They are in different physical locations but connected with a radio waive. However, it is no sure where the Dennett is - in the Body or in Brain! Hamlet dies eventually. Now only the brain (Yorick) is alive or conscious. At this point he doesn’t have any way of communication with external world. (He is only conscious with his brain without body; therefore, it seems that Dennett is just the brain).
Scenario 2: In this scenario, a new body (Fortinbras) is created, and again Dennett’s brain is connected to the New body through radio waive. It seems that still Dennett is the brain. However, at this point, another new brain (Hubert) is created. Both Yorick and Hubert are functioning at the same way. Both can interact with the new body. !!! Now which is the Dennett?

Answer 1

Robert Nozick examined these sorts of issues in his "Philopophical Explanations." He devised what he called the "closest continuer" theory. And under that theory, the answer would then be Fortinbras and Yorick.

Answer 2

This is a question about awareness or consciousness. Daniel C. Dennett is a philosopher, true but his musings are without any scientific merit. That is they cannot be proven examined or disproven by any scientific method so are entirely speculation. I believe it is impossible for a conscious awareness to exist with out a body. This staement can be examined as no consciousness is known apart from a body.

In order to even be consciously (thinkingly) aware of myself I need my sense (especially my proprioceptive sense) actualizing body and some kind of language. The idea of an animal not being conscious is not to say its brain is not responsive to its senses; it is just that it is not aware of this.. The same unconscious brain response may be true of a human baby up until 18-24 months of age whom some psychologists think are not consciously aware. You can't remember your infancy because you were not consciously aware of yourself.

When this emergent property of conscious awareness arises and how is not known to science. Even after a human achieves this conscious awareness he still has an active unconscious mind which controls most of our waking activity. You can, if you are an automobile driver, prove this to yourself by recalling how often you have viewed a red light in the rear view mirror and not been aware of whether you went through it green or was it red? Your unconscious mind was doing the driving at that time while you were consciously thinking about something else!

To say conclusivelly which is the Dennett is impossible because, I think, it is difficult to define an aware mind and impossible to seperate that awareness from a body.