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This 8 page paper considers the work of Daniel Dennett and his book 'Consciousness Explained'. This book gives us a clear indication of how difficult it is to define consciousness and its meaning, By drawing on biological, technological and psychological disciplines many ideas are discussed. This paper looks at the arguments of Dennett regarding the evolution of consciousness, the way they clash with traditional ideas and the merits within the new paradigm. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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aspects of any philosophical debate. However, it must be accepted that to have these debates there must be an element of consciousness existing in order for the individual to be
able to comprehend the status of what is an is not consciousness. In order to understand this and the way it may be seen as important we need to look
to what we really mean by consciousness. In the book Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett, with illustrations by Paul Weiner, there is a serious yet easy to read approach
designed to help the reader think and tackle these ideas regarding what is, and is not, consciousness. The idea of the evolution of consciousness may appear to be bound
with the idea of human evolution, derived the ideas of Darwin. Yet the mind evolves in a different way, and even in the selection of the fittest there may be
some contradiction. Even when we try to define what consciousness is we may run into difficulties. There are many ideas put forward
in the book, but it is the evolution of conciseness that may be seen as one of the most interesting and intricate ideas. However, this can only be tackled once
there is some degree of understanding regarding what is meant by the term consciousness and how we can so easily define which are the relevant indicators of consciousness and which
are not. All of these are elements of the consciousness experience; yet do not explain the phenomena other than by being a side effect or symptom of consciousness. A
central theme to the entire book is that of "heterophenomenological", this is an interesting method of study, and can be seen and criticised as being very neutral. Here the reports
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