- The Hard Problem Of Consciousness
- The Objectivity Of The Subjective
- Mary In Her Black And White Room
- Nagel's Bat
- Zombies
- Not Everybody Likes The Hard Problem
- Is Consciousness Like Elan Vital?
- Is Consciousness An Illusion?
- Is Qualophilia A Failure Of Imagination?
- Goals, Non-Goals, And Ground Rules
- Folk Usage vs. Real Definitions
- You Can't Even Define Your Terms!
- Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich?
- Caricatures Of Some Physicalist Arguments
- Evolution
- Big Dumptruck. Really Big Dumptruck.
- Correlation vs. Entailment
- Just-Is
- Am I Asking Too Much?
- Why I Am Optimistic
- Physicalism - Are We Really Living In A Material World?
- There's No Such Thing As A Purely Physical World
- Supervenience
- Unimplemented API
- Rosenberg's Game Of Life Physics
- What's At The Bottom? Information? Nothing?
- Panpsychism? But Doesn't That Have Huge Problems?
- Epiphenomenalism: Even If Consciousness Is Real, What Could It Possibly Do?
- Ned Block's Turing Test Beater
- Functionalism: Can't We Just Say That Consciousness Depends On The Higher-Level Organization Of The System?
- Black Boxes
- Is The Design Inherent In The Implementation?
- A Hypothesis About Hypotheticals: Do Counterfactuals Count?
- What If We Prune The Untaken Paths?
- Integrated Information Theory
- Life Is Real. Isn't It Defined "Merely" Functionally?
- What If We Gerrymander The Low-Level Components?
- Reductionism and Emergence: What Kinds Of Things Are There, Really?
- Reductionism
- Teleology
- Emergence
- How Naive Is Our Naive Realism About Our Mid-Level Chunks?
- The All-At-Onceness of Conscious Experience
- Combination Can't Be Functional
- Neuron Replacement Therapy
- Thoughts Are Evidence Of Mid-Level Holism
- Quantum Mechanics
- "Random" Is A Big Tent
- But Back To NRT
- Time Consciousness and the Specious Present
- My Notion of Motion
- Extentionalism
- Retentionalism
- Time-Quale?
- Free Will
- Two Cheers For Compatibilism
- What Even Is Free Will?
- Free Will Does Not Need To Be Hooked Up To A Motor System
- Free Will Is Inherently Creative
- Free Will Is Constitutive Of Self And Not Necessarily Non-Deterministic
- Free Will Is For Partless Wholes
- Do Large Partless Wholes Obey Laws? Does Anything?
- Who (Or What) Would Possess Free Will?
- How Many? How Long Lived?
- How Invasive Is The World?
- How Panpsychism Might Work
- Particle Man
- Quantum Holism And Chaos
- Holism And Its Discontents
- The Self
- The Infinite Regress of the Cartesian Theater
- The User Illusion
- The Players Are The Audience
- Daniel Dennett
- Things He Is Mostly Right About
- Pandemonium
- Self As Center Of Narrative Gravity
- "Direct" Perception Vs. Judgment
- Things He Isn't Right About
- "Direct" Perception Vs. Judgment
- Strangely Swimming Conscious Demons
- Beyond the Cartesian Theater: More Better Models and Metaphors
- Computers
- How Could A Computer Be More Like A Mind?
- Dennett's Pandemonium
- Phenomenological Plausibility of Demons
- Antimemes
- Darwinian Memosphere of Demons
- The Spotlight of Attention
- Synthesis/Analysis Feedback Loop
- Cognitive Qualia
- My Phenomenal Twin
- The Qualia Of Thought
- Naive, Or Pure Experience
- Higher Order Thought (HOT) Theories
- Naive, Or Pure Cognition
- Knowledge
- Is Knowledge Something Philosophers Ought To Study?
- Is Knowledge Elemental Like Hydrogen, Or Like Aristotle's Fire?
- Types of Knowledge
- Bundles Of Counterfactuals
- What Is It Like To Know?
- Doesn't It All Just Come Down To Information?
- What Even Is Information, Anyway?
- Information Is A Platonic Abstraction
- Information Represents
- Representations And The Mind
- Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Information
- Example Using Boolean AND
- Information Pokes, Pushes, or Nudges
- All Models Are Algorithms
- Internal Models As Black Boxes
- Self Reference
- The Algorithmic Intuition
- The Reality Between Our Ears
- It's Often Wrong
- It's Mostly Holes
- We Take Our Model With A Grain Of Salt
- Internalism Isn't Right, Exactly, Except It Kind Of Is
- Reference: Picking Out
- Extension
- Intension and Possible Worlds
- Who Is "Albert Einstein"?
- Putnam's Twin Earth
- Saul Kripke
- Hesperus And Phosphorus
- Modes Of Presentation
- The Contents Of Our Thoughts
- Putting Meaning Back In The Head
- Reference: Turning Out
- Two Dimensional Semantics
- Turning Out
- Symbol Resolution
- Early vs. Late Binding
- Haters Gonna Hate: Some Tautologies
- Future Directions
- What Bullet Have We Bitten, Exactly?
- Basic Metaphysics
- Taking Qualia Seriously
- Holism
- Time
- Structure and Relation, Phenomenologized
- My Favorite Model: Pandemonium
- Special Points of Emphasis
- References
- Glossary
- About The Author