Consciousness Explained
Mentioned in 1 episodes
across 1 podcast:
Theories of Everything.
ISBN 9780316180658
About the book
This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes’ dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. 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 considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.Where it comes up
Theories of Everything
“the third point is very important as well. I am the new kid in the block. I have a new theory of consciousness and it's hard to get funds for, you know, for new theories, especially in consciousness, especially something that is multidisciplinary. You know, so like physicists will not understand”
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