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  Consciousness Explained (Paperback) By (author) Daniel C. Dennett

  

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  Short Description for Consciousness ExplainedRevises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that tautology and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 December 2007
  • Format: Paperback 528 pages
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  • Categories: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy Of Mind | Popular Psychology
  • ISBN 13: 9780140128673 ISBN 10: 0140128670
  • Sales rank: 14,690

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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.