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Consciousness, dreams and virtual realities

Pages 35-58 | Published online: 10 Jun 2008

Notes

  • 1987 . “The theme of a notional world, a world constituted by the mind or experience of a subject, has been a recurrent leitmotif in philosophy at least since Descartes” . 165 Dennett .

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