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The Importance of Language in Consciousness
Daniel Dennett believes that consciousness is a result of cultural memes transmitted by language. But this is, I would say, a minority view among experts, but about 3% of people in the field think this. There are some very smart people out there who disagree with that. We have lots of conscious experiences that do not involve conscious awareness of yourself.