Dannet's View on Consciousness

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Dannet: strasson's most obvious mistake is his misrepresentation of my main claim. What bothers me about the denet view? And i love dennet because he's done a lot for integrating a these strans of thinking from within norro science, just philosophy of mind. But he does do this thing that really bugs me, which i won't call science scientism, because i won't stoop to your level. He says, well, no, look, pain is just an illusion by analys you say that, ye, he says. It's illusory. The analogies that he's trying to make is sort of like a with the narrative self

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