This book includes examples like a dialogue about a pinkish glowing ring and anthropologists who have to describe a god in the woods using descriptions from tribesmen about traits like eye color, though they all refer to the god as Feenoman.
This book includes examples like a dialogue about a pinkish glowing ring and anthropologists who have to describe a god in the woods using descriptions from tribesmen about traits like eye color, though they all refer to the god as Feenoman. A recurring contrarian named Otto is used to challenge points in this work. Its first section says there is a "combinatorial expansion" of possibilities for a figure who thinks he's paralyzed lying on the sand and starts to move, making it impossible for scientists to pipe in realistic stimuli to a brain in a vat. This book argues against both "Stalinesque" and "Orwellian" theories of perceptual editing. It uses demons in Pandaemonium as an analogy for a series of interfering parallel processes in a model meant to replace the outmoded idea of the "Cartesian theater." This work claims that people can't be distinguished from "zimboes," beings which can report on their own intentional states but lack qualia. FTP, name this book in which the "multiple drafts" model is proposed, a book written by Daniel Dennett with the aim of explicating the title mental phenomenon. 
This book includes examples like a dialogue about a pinkish glowing ring and anthropologists who have to describe a god in the woods using descriptions from tribesmen about traits like eye color, though they all refer to the god as Feenoman.
Consciousness Explained