Consciousness explained
by Daniel C. Dennett
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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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Consciousness Explained
2009, Penguin Group UK
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0141956100 9780141956107
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La Conciencia Explicada
July 17, 1995, Ediciones Paidos Iberica
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in Spanish
844930170X 9788449301704
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Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science)
June 24, 1993, Penguin Books Ltd
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0140128670 9780140128673
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-491) and index.
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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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