Posted by Pierre Charles on August 06, 1998 at 00:56:20:
In Reply to: "The Mind's Eye" posted by The Predator on August 05, 1998 at 22:05:10:
"The Mind's Eye" coauthor, Daniel C. Dennett has written; Consciousness Explained. (1991)
He claims we must abandon not just the dualism of mind and body that is the legacy from Descartes, but also what he dubs the Cartesian Theatre, the mythical place in the brain "where it all comes together" for "presentation" in consciousness. Dennett's own model of consciousness is based on new facts and theories from the realms of neuro-science, psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.
What we think of as a stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, he argues, but "multiple drafts" of reality composed by a computerlike "virtual machine", hard-wired in some areas, programmable in others.