> I recall Dennett pointing out how starting from Descartes the whole meme of the person within your brain doing things I like Dennett's coinage for this error

> I recall Dennett pointing out how starting from Descartes the whole meme of the person within your brain doing things I like Dennett's coinage for this error of reasoning: the Cartesian theater. If a theory of mind relies upon some inner mind, it hasn't explained the mind at all. edit I see it has its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater