Consciousness Explained"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life-of people, animal, even robots--are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book. |
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User Review - haig51 - LibraryThingDaniel Dennett's eliminative materialism tries to cut through the hard problem of consciousness by completely removing the concept of qualia as a wrongheaded folk psychological epiphenomenon and ... Read full review
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User Review - Carl_Hayes - LibraryThingIt's rough when you get to page 433 of a long, often tedious slog (detailed examinations of dozens of very specific experiments) and the author says "My explanation of consciousness is far from ... Read full review
Contents
A Visit to the Phenomenological Garden | |
A Method for Phenomenology | |
Multiple Drafts Versus the Cartesian Theater | |
Words Pictures and Thoughts | 2 |
Reporting and Expressing | 3 |
Zombies Zimboes and the User Illusion | 4 |
Partial Zombiehood? | 11 |
An Exercise in ConsciousnessRaising | 11 |
What Aside from Information Is Still Missing? | 11 |
Filling In versus Finding | 11 |
Neglect as a Pathological Loss of Epistemic Appetite | 11 |
Virtual Presence | 11 |
A Dialogue with Otto | 11 |
Qualia Disqualified 1 A New Kite String | 12 |
Problems with Folk Psychology | 5 |
Time and Experience | 8 |
Inside the Black Box of Consciousness | 8 |
Evolution in Brains and the Baldwin Effect | 8 |
The Invention of Good and Bad Habits of Autostimulation | 11 |
Evolution | 17 |
The Virtual Machine to | 27 |
How Words Do Things with | 8 |
The Architecture of the Human Mind | 9 |
Show and Tell | 10 |
Dismantling the Witness Protection Program 1 Review | 11 |
Why Are There Colors? | 12 |
Enjoying Our Experiences | 12 |
Inverted Qualia | 12 |
Epiphenomenal Qualia? | 12 |
Getting Back on My Rocker | 12 |
The Reality of Selves | 13 |
How Human Beings Spin a Self | 13 |
How Many Selves to a Customer? | 13 |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 13 |
Consciousness Imagined | 14 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Consciousness Explained |
| Author | Daniel C. Dennett |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0316439487, 9780316439480 |
| Length | 528 pages |
| Subjects | › › Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology Science / Cognitive Science Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience |
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