Consciousness explained
Dennett, Daniel C.
Consciousness explained - London Penguin 1993 - xiii, 511 p.
Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from conventional explanations of consciousness.
What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but 'multiple drafts' of reality composed by a computer-like 'virtual machine'. Dennett explains how science has exploded the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, the problems posed by qualia, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.
(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/12906/consciousness-explained-by-daniel-c-dennett-illus-paul-weiner/9780140128673)
9780140128673
Consciousness
Mind and body
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Consciousness explained - London Penguin 1993 - xiii, 511 p.
Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from conventional explanations of consciousness.
What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but 'multiple drafts' of reality composed by a computer-like 'virtual machine'. Dennett explains how science has exploded the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, the problems posed by qualia, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.
(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/12906/consciousness-explained-by-daniel-c-dennett-illus-paul-weiner/9780140128673)
9780140128673
Consciousness
Mind and body
126 / DEN