Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles To A Science Of Consciousness - Rilegato

Dennett, Daniel C.

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ISBN 10: 0262042258 ISBN 13: 9780262042253

Casa editrice: Bradford Books, 2005

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In the years since Daniel Dennett's influential Consciousness Explained was publishedin 1991, scientific research on consciousness has been a hotly contested battleground of rivaltheories -- "so rambunctious," Dennett observes, "that several people are writing books just aboutthe tumult." With Sweet Dreams, Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of histheory of consciousness, taking into account major empirical advances in the field since 1991 aswell as recent theoretical challenges.In Consciousness Explained, Dennett proposed to replace theubiquitous but bankrupt Cartesian Theater model (which posits a privileged place in the brain where"it all comes together" for the magic show of consciousness) with the Multiple Drafts Model. Drawingon psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, he asserted that humanconsciousness is essentially the mental software that reorganizes the functional architecture of thebrain. In Sweet Dreams, he recasts the Multiple Drafts Model as the "fame in the brain" model, as abackground against which to examine the philosophical issues that "continue to bedevil thefield."With his usual clarity and brio, Dennett enlivens his arguments with a variety of vividexamples. He isolates the "Zombic Hunch" that distorts much of the theorizing of both philosophersand scientists, and defends heterophenomenology, his "third-person" approach to the science ofconsciousness, against persistent misinterpretations and objections. The old challenge of FrankJackson's thought experiment about Mary the color scientist is given a new rebuttal in the form of"RoboMary," while his discussion of a famous card trick, "The Tuned Deck," is designed to show thatDavid Chalmers's Hard Problem is probably just a figment of theorists' misexploited imagination. Inthe final essay, the "intrinsic" nature of "qualia" is compared with the naively imagined "intrinsicvalue" of a dollar in "Consciousness -- How Much is That in Real Money?"

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• Editore: Bradford Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0262042258
• ISBN 13: 9780262042253
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 199