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Sweet dreams : philosophical obstacles to a science of consciousness / Daniel C. Dennett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jean Nicod lecturesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2005Description: xiii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262042258
  • 9780262042253
Other title:
  • Philosophical obstacles to a science of consciousness
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 153 23
LOC classification:
  • B945.D393 S94 2005
Contents:
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.
Review: "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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"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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