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Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a 2005 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, based on the text of the Jean Nicod lectures he gave in 2001.


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“Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”

Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (2005), p. 2

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