Consciousness Explained
Consciousness separates us from other animals and machines--or does it? Can consciousness be scientifically reduced to chemical and mechanical processes? If so, where do morality, love, unhappiness, and joy fit in? Now the author of Brainstorms and coauthor of The Mind's I proposes an original...
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Consciousness separates us from other animals and machines--or does it? Can consciousness be scientifically reduced to chemical and mechanical processes? If so, where do morality, love, unhappiness, and joy fit in? Now the author of Brainstorms and coauthor of The Mind's I proposes an original model of consciousness based on new scientific fact and theory. 51 drawings.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316180658 (0316180653)
Publish date: October 1st 1991
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T)
Pages no: 511
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1992-10-25)I feel uncoupled.Who knows for certain: their inner experience of sights, smells, emotions, and the rest?And this is why I often find the discussion frustrating; from my reading of his work, Dennett has never denied the experience of being conscious. What he is saying is...
After having listened to this book, I will never fall for the make-believe just so stories about consciousness again. There is no reason to have to appeal to fantasy to explain consciousness. This book gives a complete story and forevermore I'll be able to not be sucked into false thought processes ...
A friend urged me to read this book. I got a couple of chapters into it, and found the author was telling me that "we are all novelists", and that a large part of consciousness was going to be explained in terms of the ongoing narrative we spin in our interior monologues. Shortly before, another fri...
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