Freedom Evolves
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
Brainstorms
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
Kinds of Minds
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
Breaking the Spell
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
Brainchildren
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
I Am A Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter | 
Consciousness
by Susan Blackmore |
Introducing Consciousness
by David Papineau | 
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
The Conscious Mind
by David J. Chalmers | 
The User Illusion
by Tor Norretranders |
Phi
by Giulio Tononi | 
Wider Than the Sky
by Gerald M. Edelman | 
Labyrinths of Reason
by William Poundstone | 
Mind and Nature
by Gregory Bateson | 
Sweet Dreams
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
Manhood of Humanity
by Alfred Korzybski | 
Touching a Nerve
by Patricia S. Churchland | 
I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but "multiple drafts" of reality composed by a computer-like "virtual machine". Dennett considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.