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The Cartesian theatre eventually became synonymous as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from with management consultants and middle managers in much of the Western world. | The Cartesian theatre eventually became synonymous as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from with management consultants and middle managers in much of the Western world. | ||
===Consciousness explained=== | |||
Also (unrelatedly) a concept in Daniel Dennett’s brave but ultimately unconvincing attempt to persuade himself that he isn’t really there in Consciousness Explained. The Cartesian theatre is the imaginary area somewhere in the head where consciousness lives, as if a little homunuculus looking out at the world as if sat in a comfy sofa in some three-dimensional, smellivision-equiped I-Max cinema. An implausible view of the world, Dennett convincingly says, before introducing an even more implausible one to explain it. | |||
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*[[Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World]] | |||
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