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Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness
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"Like" and "like" and "like"-but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
How could a physical system give rise to conscious experience?
-David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
Only a theory that explained conscious events in terms of unconscious events could explain consciousness at all.
-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
SWEET DREAMS1 IS BY NO MEANS THE BOOK you would want to start out with if you have never read anything by Daniel Dennett. There are two distinguished classics in his oeuvre to be read first, Consciousness Explained ...
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