Dr. Daniel Dennett responded to the above open letter which resulted in a new sub camp supporting the emerging Representational Functionalism camp.  This new camp has been named "Dennett's Predictive Bayesian Coding Theory" and documents a significant update to his now primitive "Multiple Drafts" theory.

Such new support for Representational Functionalism is enabling it to remain the fastest growing consensus camp in the survey, and is gaining on the two leading general camps Functional Property Dualism and Material Property dualism.  Of particular surprising note is how all Representational Functionalists, now including Daniell Dennett, unanimously agree on the significant doctrines contained in the Representational Qualia Theory camp.  It's just that Representational Functionalists define 'quale' in more of a 'light' way, where as 'Dualists' define it in a more 'classic' or 'ineffable' way.  Specifically, Dennett admits there is something there, and understands the arguments for such, he simply asserts the best take is to ignore or 'quine qualia'.

Unfortunately, Dr Dennett hasn't yet addressed the issue raised in the letter, so the consensus response is still as is now canonized in the relative camp statements.

Our goal with the consciousness survey project is to track and rigorously measure this process as it continues, so that we might know, concisely and quantitatively what the newly emerging and leading camps are.  We want to know, definitively who are the first best experts leading the rest of the experts and the general population to the one theory which will eventually be validated by science, forcing all experts into the one true camp.

Currently, many theoretical experts in this field spend an inordinate amount of time addressing mistaken ideas or arguments that only a few minority people continue to support, while the majority have long since abandoned such mistaken ideas as falsified.  The fact that such mistaken and primitive ideas still get so much time in the peer reviewed literature  significantly destroys the reputation of this field and it's experts in the eyes of others, particularly in the eyes of those in such fields as experimental neural science.  Since, at Canonizer.com, you can tell which theories are the best emerging, most well accepted theories, one need not spend time addressing primitive and mistaken arguments most think are falsified in infinitely yes / no / yes / no ways.

That which you can measure, that which you can concisely and quantitatively communicate, improves in a way that amplifies everyone's wisdom.  But like all survey's, it's only as good and comprehensive as the people who have participated.

Upwards,

Brent Allsop
Volunteer Consciousness Survey Project