Year of manufacture: 1991
Author: Daniel Dennett
Genre: Philosophy
Publisher: Back Bay books
ISBN: 978-0-316-18065-8
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 527
Language: English

The main work of one of the largest contemporary philosophers, enfant terrible modern American philosophy, Daniel Dennett (born 1942). Here, Dennett analyzes the connections of brain processes, mental processes and states of consciousness, formulating his famous concept of "multiple sketches", according to which there is no single managing entity (subject) in consciousness and all his work is a system of spontaneously self-organizing processes. Debunking the main philosophical myth - the myth of the existence of the "I" - entrenched in philosophy since the time of Descartes, Dennett shows that consciousness can be adequately understood without introducing "empty entities" only as a system of behavioral dispositions, conditioned by biological processes.

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