?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Time+and+the+Observer&rft.creator=Dennett%2C+Daniel+C&rft.creator=Marcel%2C+Kinsbourne&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Logic&rft.subject=Behavioral+%26+Brain+Sciences&rft.description=Two+models+of+consciousness+are+contrasted+with+regard+to+their+treatment+of+subjective+timing.+The+standard+Cartesian+Theater+model+postulates+a+place+in+the+brain+where+%22it+all+comes+together%22%3A+where+the+discriminations+in+all+modalities+are+somehow+put+into+registration+and+%22presented%22+for+subjective+judgment.+In+particular%2C+the+Cartesian+Theater+model+implies+that+the+temporal+properties+of+the+content-bearing+events+occurring+within+this+privileged+representational+medium+determine+subjective+order.+The+alternative%2C+Multiple+Drafts+model+holds+that+whereas+the+brain+events+that+discriminate+various+perceptual+contents+are+distributed+in+both+space+and+time+in+the+brain%2C+and+whereas+the+temporal+properties+of+these+various+events+are+determinate%2C+none+of+these+temporal+properties+determine+subjective+order%2C+since+there+is+no+single%2C+constitutive+%22stream+of+consciousness%22+but+rather+a+parallel+stream+of+conflicting+and+continuously+revised+contents.+Four+puzzling+phenomena+that+resist+explanation+by+the+standard+model+are+analyzed%3A+two+results+claimed+by+Libet%2C+an+apparent+motion+phenomenon+involving+color+change+(Kolers+and+von+Grunau)%2C+and+the+%22cutaneous+rabbit%22+(Geldard+and+Sherrick)+an+illusion+of+evenly+spaced+series+of+%22hops%22+produced+by+two+or+more+widely+spaced+series+of+taps+delivered+to+the+skin.+The+unexamined+assumptions+that+have+always+made+the+Cartesian+Theater+model+so+attractive+are+exposed+and+dismantled.+The+Multiple+Drafts+model+provides+a+better+account+of+the+puzzling+phenomena%2C+avoiding+the+scientific+and+metaphysical+extravagances+of+the+Cartesian+Theater.&rft.date=1992&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F264%2F1%2Ftime%2526obs.htm&rft.identifier=++Dennett%2C+Daniel+C+and+Marcel%2C+Kinsbourne++(1992)+Time+and+the+Observer.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F264%2F