Daniel Dennett :The Conscious Mind

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Daniel Dennett The Conscious Mind

• Lennese Semple
• Brooklyn College
• CC 30.10

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Daniel Dennett

• Born in 1942 in Boston MA
• Received his B.A. in Philosophy in 1963
• Doctural and Post- Doctural work at Oxford
  College
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and
  Sciences
• Professor of Cognition at Tufts University

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The Cartesian Model of Consciousness

• The Central Gateway
• Theories of Clout and Political Influence
• Decartes and the Pineal Gland

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The Cartesian Model of Consciousness

• Physiological Structures of Consciousness
• Hard Problem of Consciousness

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The Multiple Drafts Model

• Processing Information in a serial , sequential
  and parallel manner
• The Narrative Stream of Consciousness
• Empirically examining Consciousness

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Searle V.S. Dennett

• The Chinese Room Paradoxes in the parameters of
  the Conscious brain
• The Consciousness as a first person/subjective
  experience
• Functional minimalism v.s.The Chinese Room
  Paradox