The Multiple Drafts Model

Abstract

Having let go of the requirement that mental events must pass through central processing area in order to achieve consciousness implies that consciousness does not have to consist of seamless stream of unified experiences, even if it seems that way. Only on Cartesian model do these questions require answers, and so only on Cartesian model does the apparent inability to settle them pose problem. On Multiple Drafts Model (MDM), because one single draft does not proceed through time along continuous line, there does not have to be fact of the matter about these issues of timing. This is how MDM respects the powerful appearance of single, official draft. In introducing MDM, Dennett describes it as a first version of the replacement for the image of mind suggested by the Cartesian model.