@article {Rockwell:1996:1355-8250:463,
	author = "Rockwell T.",
	title = "Awareness, mental phenomena and consciousness: a synthesis of Dennett and Rosenthal",
	journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies",
	volume = "3",
	number = "5-6",
	year = "1996",
	abstract = "<P>Both Dennett and his critics believe that the invalidity of the famed Stalinist-Orwellian distinction is a consequence of his multiple drafts model of consciousness (MDM). This is not so obvious, however, once we recognize that the question &#145;how do you get experience out of meat?&#146; actually fragments into at least three different questions. How (out of meat) do we get: (1) a unified sense of self, (2) awareness and (3) mental phenomena? In the latter chapters of Consciousness Explained, Dennett shows how MDM has a radical and profound way of interrelating awareness and self . But the Stalinist-Orwellian distinction can be dissolved by analysing the nature of mental phenomena, without making any reference to awareness or self or the MDM. This is because The Stalinist-Orwellian distinction rests on much the same category mistake (confusing of parts with wholes) which Ryle pointed out in his Concept of Mind. Once we recognize that a theory of awareness is trying to do something different from a theory of mental phenomena, we can see why Dennett and his critics frequently talked past each other, and how we can resolve these controversies by incorporating something like Rosenthal&#039;s theory of higher order thoughts into the MDM. (Something he has come very close to doing already in his discussions of the &#145;hunt the thimble&#146; phenomenon.) This would require, however, that Dennett abandon his principle of first person operationalism, and recognize that it is possible for us to be mistaken about our own internal states.</P>",
	pages = "463-476",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/1996/00000003/F0020005/731",
	keyword = "Neuropsychology, higher order thoughts, Rosenthal, center of narrative gravity, self-consciousness, mental phenomena, awareness, multiple drafts, Dennett, global workspace"
}