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Re:Is Consciousness an Illusion? by manyoso on Saturday March 04, 2017 @01:08PM (#13792076)
How is that an innovation?!

Materialists have been asserting since forever that consciousness arises from the brain and that the brain evolved according to Darwin's laws. What is new in Dennett's viewpoint?

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Re:Is Consciousness an Illusion? by kerkeslager on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:12AM (#13796578)
Dennett goes into a lot more detail as to the processes by which evolution affects consciousness and the resulting properties of consciousness than anyone in my (admittedly limited) reading.
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