摘要：Tor Nørretranders, a Danish science writer, proposes in his book, Iluzia utilizatorului (Publica, 2009), a very interesting perspective on one of the most important problem in the history of philosophy, but also in the history of science: the problem of consciousness, more precisely, the problem of understanding the nature, the limits and the dynamics of consciousness. It is generally known that the understanding of consciousness is a key part of every scientific or philosophical endeavor of understanding the human being. Therefore, a step forward in this direction would have important consequences for various fields as epistemology, anthropology, psychology and many others. Tor Nørretranders succeeded both in underlying the main problem – the specific features of consciousness as one can understand them today using recent scientific results – and developing in the same time a coherent analysis of the multiple consequences of such discoveries on various themes and fields of investigation. He also emphasized with remarkable accuracy the importance of numerous links among the development of different scientific theories in natural sciences and collateral developments in psychology and information theory.
