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Consciousness Explained. Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. Dennett describes consciousness as an account of the various calculations occurring in the brain at close ...
496. ISBN. 978-0-393-24207-2. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds is a 2017 book about the origin of human consciousness by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author makes a case for a materialist theory of mind, [1] arguing that consciousness is no more mysterious than gravity. Drawing on ideas from René Descartes ...
Daniel Dennett 's multiple drafts model of consciousness is a physicalist theory of consciousness based upon cognitivism, which views the mind in terms of information processing. The theory is described in depth in his book, Consciousness Explained, published in 1991. As the title states, the book proposes a high-level explanation of ...
Similar ideas have been explicated in his 1991 book Consciousness Explained. [71] Dennett argues that the so-called "hard problem" will be solved in the process of solving what Chalmers terms the "easy problems". [16] He compares consciousness to stage magic and its capability to create extraordinary illusions out of ordinary things. [72]
0-553-34584-2. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by philosophers Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The texts range from early philosophical and fictional musings on a subject that could seemingly ...
Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind , the philosophy of science , and the philosophy of biology , particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science .
The intentional stance is a term coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett for the level of abstraction in which we view the behavior of an entity in terms of mental properties.It is part of a theory of mental content proposed by Dennett, which provides the underpinnings of his later works on free will, consciousness, folk psychology, and evolution.
0-262-54191-2. OCLC. 70985554. Preceded by. Freedom Evolves. Followed by. Breaking the Spell. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a 2005 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, based on the text of the Jean Nicod lectures he gave in 2001.