Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Dennett's book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from conventional explanations of consciousness. 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 explains how science has exploded the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, the problems posed by qualia, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Year
- 1993
- ISBN-13
- 9780141956107
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- ConsciousnessPhilosophy of mindNeuroscience
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1992)
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