My first reaction is to say that this is a compliment. But Dennett is one of the few philosophers who could shake me out of that perhaps rather prejudiced view. I'm pretty sure that what he does isn't science, but he works in an area of philosophy where scientific experiments and discoveries constitute an important part of the data to be made sense of and, furthermore, where the science is rapidly advancing. He's not afraid to take science seriously, even if it earns him the scorn of other more traditionally-minded colleagues.
Well, he argues his case a lot more convincing than you with your "monism" that, last time you explained it, required four fundamental entities and your weird numerological stuff.
