I always was on the hand of Dennet, how believe in the possibility of strong AI and held that a machine that passed the Turing test must be conscious.

Modern LLM's have shown that a computer can pass the Turing test, even without understanding or consciousness. In that way it's fortunate that Dennet didn't get to live through it's insurgence. I would be curious to his take, though.

I loved the vitriol he had in his denial of Searle and the Chinese room argument, though.