They only believe in things that can be physically touched and examined, so the idea of a mind is not something that can be exactly located. The opposite of this theory is called Monism, which is the idea that the mind and the body are all one thing. There are many different ideas about this subject, but there doesn’t seem to be a universally accepted idea. Dennett created a theory called Multiple Drafts, also known as Fame in the Brain, in which consciousness isn’t a singular thing but a multifaceted one. The term “drafts” comes from the idea that it is much like the many drafts a novelist may go through before finishing a book. Adding to this idea, Dennett says, "These yield, over the course of time, something rather like a narrative stream or sequence, which can be thought of as subject to continual editing by many processes distributed around the brain" (Sweet Dreams 135). However, within these drafts, Dennett says there is no order and no centralized area within the brain where this is located. There simply cannot be a center to this stream of
They only believe in things that can be physically touched and examined, so the idea of a mind is not something that can be exactly located. The opposite of this theory is called Monism, which is the idea that the mind and the body are all one thing. There are many different ideas about this subject, but there doesn’t seem to be a universally accepted idea. Dennett created a theory called Multiple Drafts, also known as Fame in the Brain, in which consciousness isn’t a singular thing but a multifaceted one. The term “drafts” comes from the idea that it is much like the many drafts a novelist may go through before finishing a book. Adding to this idea, Dennett says, "These yield, over the course of time, something rather like a narrative stream or sequence, which can be thought of as subject to continual editing by many processes distributed around the brain" (Sweet Dreams 135). However, within these drafts, Dennett says there is no order and no centralized area within the brain where this is located. There simply cannot be a center to this stream of