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This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. 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 considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.
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Consciousness explained, Daniel Clement Dennett, Paul Weiner
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- Released
- 1993
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Daniel Clement Dennett, Paul Weiner
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN10
- 0140128670
- ISBN13
- 9780140128673
- Series
- Collection
- Penguin science
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Psychology, Biology, Science, Neuroscience, Brain
- First published
- 1996
- Original title
- Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
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- This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. 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 considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.