Cutting consciousness down to size, the danish science writer tor norretranders uses the story to launch an allout assault on the worshipful place so often awarded to human awareness. In the generous man, tor norretranders develops an overlooked strand of darwinian thought. Cutting consciousness down to size penguin press science. The user illusion by tor norretranders, 1998, viking edition, in english. The user illusion by tor norretranders pdf 25 download. In partial explanation nrretranders adopts the metaphor of consciousness as the equivalent of the user interface of a computer system. Tor norretranders is a danish writer, speaker, thinker, and selfidentified science storyteller who writes with a sophistication rarely seen in popular science writing new york times. Norretranders is a danish science journalist, who attempts to tie together the results of several scientists into an. This notion is explored by tor norretranders in his 1991 danish book.
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