{"id":190260,"date":"2024-05-28T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dennetts-multiple-drafts-theory-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:29:23","slug":"dennetts-multiple-drafts-theory-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dennetts-multiple-drafts-theory-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Dennett\u2019s Multiple Drafts Theory of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cD4zDsCOEw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, a conscious state is a brain state that is spread out in both space and time. It is spread out in the brain across multiple instances of what Dennett calls \u201ccontent fixations.\u201d These content fixations are the \u201cmultiple drafts\u201d in the theory\u2019s name. Each of these drafts compete for domination in the cognitive system. This domination is what Dennett calls \u201cfame in the brain.\u201d Read more about it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarpedia.org\/article\/M\">http:\/\/www.scholarpedia.org\/article\/M<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>#philosophyofmind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, a conscious state is a brain state that is spread out in both space and time. It is spread out in the brain across multiple instances of what Dennett calls \u201ccontent fixations.\u201d These content fixations are the \u201cmultiple drafts\u201d in the theory\u2019s name. Each of these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}