Critical Responses To Multiple Drafts
Dennett's theory has received criticism, at least part of this is because of the tone of his presentation. As one grudging supporter admits, "there is much in this book that is disputable. And Dennett is at times aggravatingly smug and confident about the merits of his arguments All in all Dennett's book is annoying, frustrating, insightful, provocative and above all annoying." (Korb 1993)
Bogen (1992) points out that the brain is bilaterally symmetrical. That being the case, if Cartesian materialism is true, there might be two Cartesian theatres, so arguments against only one are flawed. Velmans (1992) argues that the phi effect and the cutaneous rabbit illusion demonstrate that there is a delay whilst modelling occurs and that this delay was discovered by Libet.
It has also been claimed out that the argument in the multiple drafts model does not support its conclusion.
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