The Rise and Fall of Reality:
Deliberations on the Mind-Body Problem
by Dan J. Bruiger
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Part One:MIND AND MATTER
- The Real
- The Situation of Embodiment
- The Subjective Frame
- Some Mind-Body Problems
- The Ghost in the Machine
- Skepticism, or the Problem of Knowledge
- Other Minds, Other Bodies
- The Reality Principle
- Self-Reference and Subjectivity
- Paradox and the Subjective Frame
- The Ground of Experience
Part Two: INTENTION AND EXTENSION
- Causality
- Intentionality
- The "Mathematical" Meaning of Meaning
- What it is Like to Be an Intentional System
- The Problem of Cognitive Domains
- Coloring it Real
- De-realizing the World
- The Evolution of Conciousness
Part Three: CONTENT AND FORM
- Analog and Digital
- The Propositional Nature of Thought
- Simulation and Replication
- Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and Nanotechnology
- Extraterrestrial Life
Part Four: SUBJECT AND OBJECT
- A Concious Relationship to Experience
- The Subject is No Object
- The Concept of Spiritual Freedom
- Play
- Formalism
- Games
- Time and Space
- Cycles and The Shadow of Thought
- Objectivity
- Identity and the Absolute
- Ego
- Emptiness
Appendix to Section 17
Footnotes
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