Author | Mulhauser, Gregory R. author |
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Title | Mind Out of Matter [electronic resource] : Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition / by Gregory R. Mulhauser |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5104-7 |
Descript | XIX, 291 p. online resource |
One: Frontal Assault -- 1. Structure and Overview -- 2. Underlying Themes and Methods -- 3. Cognitive Dissonance -- Two: Zombies and Their Look-Alikes -- 1. An Embarrassment to Our Discipline -- 2. Building A Zombie -- 3. Zombies, Functions, and Mathematical Mysticism -- Three: Information, Complexity, and Representation -- 1. Information is Physical -- 2. Measuring Information -- 3. Grounding Representation -- 4. GรถDEL DE-MYSTIFIED -- 5. Platonic Hell -- Four: A Rose, by any other Name (or Description) -- 1. Sensations and DescriptonsโPreliminaries -- 2. Getting Sensations from Descriptions -- 3. โMacmaryโ -- 4. A Tasty Side Note -- 5. The Third Person Problem -- Five: Functional Systems -- 1. Liberal Functionausm -- 2. Logical Depth Measures -- 3. Choosing Modules by Minimising Complexity -- 4. Broader Concerns about Functional Decomposition -- Six: Self Models -- 1. Supervenience and Levels of Explanation -- 2. Prelude to a Theory of Consciousness -- 3. Troubles with โMental Statesโ -- 4. Capturing Consciousness -- 5. Inside the Self Model -- Seven: Schrรถdingerโs Cat is Dead -- 1. Two Problems of Interpretation -- 2. Quantum Formalism in a Nutshell -- 3. Consistent Histories -- 4. The Classical Approximation -- 5. Interactive Decoherence -- 6. Is This a Fapp? -- 7. mindโwhatโs QM Got to Do With it? -- Eight: Building Conscious Data Structures -- 1. Information and the Self Model -- 2. Representation and Function in Neural Systems -- 3. Grossbergโs Adaptive Resonance Theory -- 4. Circuits of the Self Model -- Nine: Chaos, Computabiltty, and Real Life -- 1. Too Much of a Good Thing? -- 2. Models and Computation -- 3. Dynamical Systems -- 4. Chaotic Systems -- 5. Extended Computabjlity -- 6. Computability and Chaotic Analogue Systems -- 7. Chaos And Cognition In Real Life -- Ten: My โHiddenโ Agenda -- 1. What Good is a Theory of Mend And Body? -- 2. A Partial Picture In Soft Focus -- 3. Philosophical Futures -- References