Sweet dreams: how philosophy interferes with the science of consciousness. Dennet D.

“Sweet Dreams” is one of the most important works about the consciousness that have been published in recent years. Its author, the prominent American philosopher Daniel Dennet, was widely recognized back in 1991, after the publication of the “explained consciousness”, which actually turned the scientific study of consciousness in the field of “turbulent battles” of rival theories. In “Sweet Dreams”, Dennet once again reviews and renews his concept, given the main empirical achievements in this area recently the latest theoretical problems. In the “explained consciousness”, Dennet proposed replacing the popular but insolvent model of consciousness as a show playing out in the brain (model of the Cartesian Theater), with a multiple sketches model, according to which it is a kind of mental software that rebels functional architecture of the brain. Accepting to calculate the achievement of psychology, cognitive neuronaus and development in the field of artificial intelligence, in the “sweet dreams” Dennet changes this model to a new one - the “glory in the brain” model, for which everything unconscious, “wants” to become conscious. Based on this theory, the author unfolds a study of various issues that “continue to blow up the field” of philosophical discussions. With his inherent clarity and liveliness, Dennet illustrates his arguments with many vivid examples. He writes about “flair on zombies”, distorting many theoretical constructions of philosophers and scientists, and protects heterophenology (the method of constructing objective science of consciousness developed by him) from incessant attacks and objections. Frank Jackson's old mental experiment on Mary, who studies the color, receives a new refutation in the mental experiment about Robomeri, and the discussion of the famous card focus “Titling deck” is designed to show that the difficult problem of consciousness, formulated by David Chalmers, is perhaps only a fiction of poorly working The imagination of theorists. Dennet solves all these complex problems in a brilliant ironic form, once again proving his outstanding polemic skill.