Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 153 of 171
Dennett's Cartesian Theater and multiple drafts
Dennett does not share the view that consciousness is decomposable. In other words, he thinks that our feeling that we have a unitary conscious experience is an illusion. He calls this feeling the “Cartesian Theater”—the place in the brain where all of the information processing in the brain comes together to form our experience. He proposes instead that what seems like a unified conscious experience is a succession of “multiple drafts” that has no central