Gaskiya: Gabatarwa Ta Gajeren Lokaci

Hiba Cabd Caziz Ghanim d. 1450 AH
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Gaskiya: Gabatarwa Ta Gajeren Lokaci

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Neurosurgery,

65(4) (2009): 633-43.

Daniel Dennett’s 'Where Am I?’ is reprinted in chapter 13 of the excellent anthology

The Mind’s I,

edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett (Harvester Press, 1981). The selection given here is on pp. 218-19. In 1988, the Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos turned Dennett’s story into a film (starring Daniel Dennett as Daniel Dennett). You can watch it at

http://video.google.com/vid eoplay?docid=8576072297424860224# .

The experiment with the virtual full-body illusion is described in Thomas Metzinger’s

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Basic Books, 2009), pp. 98-101.

A variant of the thought experiment of the self-destroying drug is described in Raymond Smullyan’s essay 'An Unfortunate Dualist’ in his

This Book Needs No Title (Simon & Schuster, 1980), pp. 53-5. This piece is discussed in

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