We focus on the final chapters of Dan Dennett’s Consciousness Explained, where he confronts various views, figures, and thought experiments that contend that he’s failed to explain the essence of consciousness: the “what it’s like” element of any conscious experience that is distinct from a mere judgment or processing of information. One could imagine a being that organizationally matches Dennett’s multiple drafts model, acts just like an intelligent person, and yet lacks consciousness. Dennett denies this.

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