Brainstorms Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

I only read the most well-know story, “Where am I?”. it’s an entertaining game of logic But it fails really badly at what it sets out to do. The stories were written as “thought experiments”, to make the reader ponder questions about consciousness. But then, using the freedom of fiction, Dennett postulates impossible situations from which he draws conclusions, making the whole experiment completely worthless. There are several of those in “where am I?”, the most flagrant one being a computer replicating a brain (and producing consciousness), and the subject not seeing the difference when his body is controlled by one or the other. This idea alone packs so many assumptions about thought and consciousness (starting with the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain) that the resulting conclusions bring light on nothing more than the author’s peculiar preconceptions.