I think you’re misinterpreting. Dennet is setting up to question Descartes’ assumption, which has been “accepted,” but he spends the first 50 or so pages of the

I think you’re misinterpreting. Dennet is setting up to question Descartes’ assumption, which has been “accepted,” but he spends the first 50 or so pages of the book breaking down. I’m not saying this book has all the answers about consciousness (quite the contrary — it has been criticized for not really “explaining consciousness” as the title implies), but I think you would find the studies and observations about how our minds generate “drafts” of reality quite compelling.