Consciousness explained

Description

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.

Description

Advances a new theory of consciousness based on insights gleaned from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence, and clears away obsolete myths about the process of thinking in conscious beings.

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Other Editions

• Consciousness explainedLittle, Brown and Co.1991-01-01
• Consciousness explainedLittle, Brown1991-01-01
• Consciousness explainedLittle, Brown and Co1991-01-01
• Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science)Penguin Books Ltd1993-06-24
• Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science)PaperbackPenguin Books Ltd1993-06-24
• Consciousness ExplainedElectronic resourcePenguin Group UK2009-01-01