> Dennet is a reductive materialist.

"Materialism: 1a: a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter. scientific materialism" [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/materialist

Materialism became the guiding philosophy of Science in ~1845. Reductionism was all the rage.

I think materialism is losing its stranglehold on scientific progress ('science advances one funeral at a time'). There was a submission a few days ago titled "physics has demoted mass" [3]

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679150

My experience is that the universe is probably more intricate than we can imagine.