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Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained

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aspects of any philosophical debate. However, it must be accepted that to have these debates there must be an element of consciousness existing in order for the individual to be  able to comprehend the status of what is an is not consciousness. In order to understand this and the way it may be seen as important we need to look  to what we really mean by consciousness. In the book Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett, with illustrations by Paul Weiner, there is a serious yet easy to read approach  designed to help the reader think and tackle these ideas regarding what is, and is not, consciousness. The idea of the evolution of consciousness may appear to be bound  with the idea of human evolution, derived the ideas of Darwin. Yet the mind evolves in a different way, and even in the selection of the fittest there may be  some contradiction. Even when we try to define what consciousness is we may run into difficulties. There are many ideas put forward  in the book, but it is the evolution of conciseness that may be seen as one of the most interesting and intricate ideas. However, this can only be tackled once  there is some degree of understanding regarding what is meant by the term consciousness and how we can so easily define which are the relevant indicators of consciousness and which  are not. All of these are elements of the consciousness experience; yet do not explain the phenomena other than by being a side effect or symptom of consciousness. A  central theme to the entire book is that of "heterophenomenological", this is an interesting method of study, and can be seen and criticised as being very neutral. Here the reports