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Consciousness Explained

Daniel C. Dennett

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#2897 of 3,809 books · #325 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1992).

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.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141956107
Topics
ConsciousnessPhilosophy of mindNeuroscience

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