Dennett's Multiple Drafts model explicitly rejects a Cartesian Theater where conflicting signals must resolve into one 'official' experience, showing extensional frameworks need not posit contradictory co-present representations.
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Multiple Drafts model(as the main concept being explained)
A theory suggesting that your brain doesn't create one single, unified experience of the world. Instead, it's more like your brain is constantly creating multiple overlapping versions of what's happening, kind of like how a document might have different draft versions.
co-present representations(what the old theory worried we'd have to explain)
Multiple different versions or copies of an experience existing in your mind at exactly the same time. The concern was that having conflicting versions existing together would create a logical problem.
extensional frameworks(philosophical approaches that Dennett argues don't need the Cartesian Theater)
Ways of understanding something that focus on what actually exists or what's actually true in the world, rather than abstract possibilities. Think of it as looking at real, concrete facts.