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Suggests the brain constructs a simplified "caricature" or model of its own attention processes, and it is this model that we mistake for "consciousness". 4. Biological Roots: Homeostasis and Survival

Compares the brain to a theater where information is "broadcast" to a wide audience of specialized systems once it reaches a certain threshold of attention. Consciousness Explained

In his seminal work Consciousness Explained , Daniel Dennett famously rejected the idea of a "Cartesian Theater"—a single place in the brain where it all "comes together" for an internal observer. Suggests the brain constructs a simplified "caricature" or