Consciousness Explained
Last updated October 31, 2026
Daniel Dennett offers a combined scientific and philosophical account of consciousness. He rejects the common picture of a central place in the brain where experience comes together, which he calls the Cartesian theater. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence, he proposes instead a multiple drafts model, in which many parallel processes in the brain produce what we experience as a single stream of awareness, and he uses it to address puzzles about time, color and the self.
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