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Consciousness explained

Advances a new theory of consciousness based on insights gleaned from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence, and clears away obsolete myths about the process of thinking in conscious beings
Print Book, English, ©1991
Little, Brown and Co., Boston, ©1991
xiii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780316180658, 9780316180665, 0316180653, 0316180661
23648691
Prelude: how are hallucinations possible?
Explaining consciousness
A visit to the phenomenological garden
A method for phenomenology
Multiple drafts versus the Cartesian Theater
Time and experience
The evolution of consciousness
How words do things with us
The architecture of the human mind
Show and tell
Dismantling the witness protection program
Qualia disqualified
The reality of selves
Consciousness imagined