I don't see how can Dennett can dissect consciousness via demonstrations of visual perceptions. It's a long stretch. As I see it the visual perception itself is an example of consciousness of suggested visual material. There is nothing new about the mind filling in the blanks in many aspects of consciousness aside from the art world. These visual tricks don't necessarily indicate that our consciousness in fooling us into believing we are living in a conscious world. He seems to totally bypass the mental processes. Consciousness is essentially "awareness" of our being and of course we have different levels of consciousness. Consciousness, subconsciousness and super-consciousness may be the most recognized forms. If I am fooled by a magician's illusion then basically I am conscious of the illusion whether I'm aware of how the illusion comes about or not. I just don't see the equating of optical illusion with illusory consciousness. I expected more from the video and felt Dennett really left it as open at the end as it was in the beginning. At the end I felt "that's it?"
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