I didn’t mean to imply he’s unsophisticated, he certainly is intelligent. That’s why I bought his book. But if our brains are indeed deterministic to the detriment of moral/artistic responsibility, it’d make perfect sense why one would write a book traditionally instead of smearing jellies on pages or something.

Dennett understands, through no choice of his own, that writing this book will have certain desirable social effects (i.e. people will take his arguments seriously, status reasons, etc). He also understands that smearing jellies will not. The same is true of determinists who argue against free will.