PSY 0816 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cartesian Theater, Daniel Dennett, Cartesian Materialism

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 0816
• Professor: Todd Karpinski

Document Summary

Recognize the weaknesses of the cartesian theater model of the mind. There is nothing it is like for me most of the time rather there are multiple parallel streams of processing going on none of these is in consciousness or out of consciousness. All are phenomenally conscious to the extent that they create some sort of world. They arise and fall away with no one who experiences them. At these times, recent events from memory are brought together by paying attention to them, and the appearance of a unified self having unified experiences is created.