BookConsciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
Dennett rejects a central inner observer and proposes a multiple-drafts account of consciousness grounded in cognitive processes.
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BookDaniel C. Dennett
Dennett rejects a central inner observer and proposes a multiple-drafts account of consciousness grounded in cognitive processes.
BookPhilip Goff
An analytic philosopher argues that physical science describes structure and behavior while leaving intrinsic conscious nature unexplained, motivating panpsychism.
Evan Thompson
Philosopher Evan Thompson follows consciousness through waking, dreaming, lucid dreaming, deep sleep, out-of-body experience, meditation, dying, and questions about the self. He places neuroscience and Western philosophy in careful conversation with Indian philosophical and contemplative traditions.
Bernardo Kastrup
Kastrup argues that mind is fundamental and that brains and physical bodies appear within consciousness rather than produce it, extending the framework toward death and anomalous phenomena.