Why and How Does Consciousness Seem the Way it Seems?

Author

Daniel C. Dennett

daniel.dennett @ tufts.edu

Tufts University

Medford, MA, U.S.A.

Commentator

David Baßler

davidhbassler @ gmail.com

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Mainz, Germany

Editors

Thomas Metzinger

metzinger @ uni-mainz.de

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Mainz, Germany

Jennifer M. Windt

jennifer.windt @ monash.edu

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

Are-expression of some of the troublesome features of my oft-caricatured theory of consciousness, with new emphases, brings out the strengths of the view and shows how it comports with and anticipates the recent introduction of Bayesian approaches to cognitive science.

Keywords

Bayes | Consciousness | Hume | Inversion | Qualia | Transduction