Sweet dreams : philosophical obstacles to a science of consciousness / Daniel C. Dennett.
Material type: TextSeries: Jean Nicod lecturesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2005Description: xiii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262042258
- 9780262042253
- Philosophical obstacles to a science of consciousness
- 153 23
- B945.D393 S94 2005
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"A Bradford book."--Title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Zombic hunch: extinction of an intuition? -- 2. A third-person approach to consciousness -- 3. Explaining the "magic" of consciousness -- 4. Are qualia what make life worth living? -- 5. What roboMary knows -- 6. Are we explaining consciousness yet? -- 7. A fantasy echo theory of consciousness -- 8. Consciousness: how much is that in real money? -- References -- Index.
"In Consciousness Explained, Dennet proposed to replace the ubiquitous but bankrupt Cartesian Theater model with the Multiple Drafts Model. Drawing on psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, he asserted that human consciousness is essentially the mental software that reorganizes the functional architecture of the brain. In Sweet Dreams, he recasts the Multiple Drafts Model as the "fame in the brain" model, as a background against which to examine the philosophical issues that "continue to bedevil the field.""--Jacket.
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