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## Contents Series Foreword vii Preface ix 1 The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition? 1 1 The Naturalistic Turn 1 2 The Reactionaries 8 3 An Embarrassment of Zombies 13 4 Broad Functionalism and Minimalism 17 5 The Future of an Illusion 22 2 A Third-Person Approach to Consciousness 25 1 Scientists from Mars 25 2 Folk Theories and Philosophy 31 3 Heterophenomenology Revisited 35 4 David Chalmers as Heterophenomenological Subject 47 5 The Second-Person Point of View 49 3 Explaining the "Magic" of Consciousness 57 1 The Thankless Task of Explaining Magic 58 2 Dismantling the Audience 69 3 The Tuned Deck 72 4 Are Qualia What Make Life Worth Living? 77 1 The Quale, An Elusive Quarry 77 2 Change Blindness and a Question about Qualia 82 3 Sweet Dreams and the Nightmare of Mr. Clapgras 91 5 What RoboMary Knows 103 1 Mary and the Blue Banana 104 2 "Surely" She'll Be Surprised 107 3 You Had to Be There! 116 4 RoboMary 122 5 Locked RoboMary 126 6 Are We Explaining Consciousness Yet? 131 1 Clawing Our Way toward Consensus 131 2 Competition for Clout 136 3 Is There Also a Hard Problem? 143 4 But What about "Qualia"? 151 5 Conclusion 157 7 A Fantasy Echo Theory of Consciousness 159 1 Fleeti
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- Author
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (309 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14