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Dennet ("Consciousness explained") does suggest that important parts of what we call "consciousness" are cultural, rather than inborn...


Blackmore in her introductions to consciousness suggests something related: that consciousness is an a concept (or illusion, to her) only widely known because it became a social meme.




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