The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
On Daniel C. Dennett’s Consciousness Explained (Ch. 1, 5), featuring guest Mark, Seth, Dylan, and guest Chris Heath.
What is the mind? Dennett puts forth his “multiple drafts” model against the centralization that he characterizes as the “Cartesian Theater.” Dennett claims that there is no central place in the brain, or (more controversally) no central processing center in experience, that receives data from the senses and then initiates action (and memory, and other post-experiential processing). How counter-intutitive is this, exactly?
