Consciousness and the Cartesian Theater
Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:41:15 -0400
> From: Brent Allsop <allsop@swttools.fc.hp.com>
[...]
> There are many reason. First and foremost it seems to me to
> be the most natural. This is a vast "cartoon world" inside our mind
> that is everything we know. At the center of this "cartoon world" is
> a representation of ourselves.
You appear to be arguing for the so-called "Cartesian Theater", a
notion thoroughly demolished by Dennett in "Consciousness Explained".
Are you familiar with Dennett's arguments on the subject? I'm not sure
I believe *all* of them, but they are very convincing overall, and
backed with lots of empirical evidence.
Perry