- Mind and body, Consciousness, Conscience, Leib-Seele-Problem
This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence.
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- Author
- Daniel C. Dennett
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co., Little, Brown and Co, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780316439480
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“Suppose evil scientists removed your brain from your body while you slept, and set it up in a life-support system in a vat.”
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centered on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett was a vocal atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, and a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of N
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