Consciousness Explained
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What’s it about?
Your sense of a unified self is an illusion. Dennett dismantles the 'Cartesian Theater' to reveal consciousness as a collection of competing brain processes that create a narrative you mistake for a soul.
You’ll learn
- Consciousness is not a single stream but multiple drafts
- The self is a narrative fiction, not a thing
- Qualia are not real; they are judgments in disguise
- Free will is real but compatible with determinism