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565: 25: 435: 305:" of consciousness, which suggested that there was no singular space in the conscious mind. In other words, there is no special location in the brain that can be seen as the qualia-containing "consciousness module". Instead, he states that consciousness is smeared throughout the brain. He extends the model by creating a similar figure that he calls "Fame in the Brain" and suggests that the mind acts, to some degree, as an 338:
that would have revolved around this author is drowned in the focus on San Francisco. Dennett asks, can this man be considered "famous"? He says that the man is in fact not famous even though the book that would have made him famous remains unchanged. This is because fame, according to Dennett, is
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not about the cause of the fame, but about the aftermath: the interviews, the magazine covers, the
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The main tenet of "Fame in the Brain" is that consciousness, much like
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Dennett extends his well noted attack on the philosophical notion of
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Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
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Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
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Daniel C. Dennett
Saul Steinberg
Consciousness
MIT Press
ISBN
0-262-54191-2
OCLC
70985554
Freedom Evolves
Breaking the Spell
Daniel Dennett
Jean Nicod lectures
qualia
philosophical zombies
thought experiments
Naturalist school of thought
consciousness
Consciousness Explained
multiple drafts model
echo chamber
fame
The Oprah Winfrey Show

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