You tell us. You're working with the same internet as the rest of us.

I don't think so. The person who you may be thinking of is likely Stephen Pinker, who has written on similar subjects: e.g. Dennett: Consciousness Explained; Pinker: How the Mind Works.

However, Professor Dennett's comments on twitter as linked by dmd apply to both Dennett and Pinker: One of Mr Epstein's occupations was basically getting close to many of the great and the good. Mr Epstein was skilled at it, and having large amounts of money to donate helped some. The bar for "involved" has to be higher than that.

Not that I’m aware of, and it seems unlikely. You may be thinking of his agent John Brockman who was indeed involved. The only connection I found after 10 min of googling was when Dan Dennett went with other clients of Brockman (Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins; I know, weird trio, but this was back in 2002, well before Dawkins’ outing as a right wing weirdo) that attended a TED conference at Epstein’s island in 2002.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-science...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets...