Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett based on the text of the Jean Nicod lectures he gave in 2001.
Dennett extends his well noted attack on the philosophical notion of qualia by using the metaphor of zombies as well as addressing many popular thought experiments. Dennett's conclusion is that there is no qualia and that the mind, and consciousness, can be understoo...
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Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett based on the text of the Jean Nicod lectures he gave in 2001.
Dennett extends his well noted attack on the philosophical notion of qualia by using the metaphor of zombies as well as addressing many popular thought experiments. Dennett's conclusion is that there is no qualia and that the mind, and consciousness, can be understood and explained from the Naturalist school of thought.
In Sweet Dreams, Dennett reposes the question of consciousness addressed in his 1991 book Consciousness Explained. In Consciousness Explained, Dennett established what he called the "Multiple Drafts Model" of consciousness, which suggested that there was no singular space in the conscious mind. In other words, there is no special location in the brain that can be seen as the "consciousness module." Instead, he states that consciousness is smeared throughout the brain. He extends the model...
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