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

  1. The Real
  2. The Situation of Embodiment
  3. The Subjective Frame
  4. Some Mind-Body Problems
  5. The Ghost in the Machine
  6. Skepticism, or the Problem of Knowledge
  7. Other Minds, Other Bodies
  8. The Reality Principle
  9. Self-Reference and Subjectivity
  10. Paradox and the Subjective Frame
  11. The Ground of Experience

Part Two: INTENTION AND EXTENSION

  1. Causality
  2. Intentionality
  3. The "Mathematical" Meaning of Meaning
  4. What it is Like to Be an Intentional System
  5. The Problem of Cognitive Domains
  6. Coloring it Real
  7. De-realizing the World
  8. The Evolution of Conciousness

Part Three: CONTENT AND FORM

  1. Analog and Digital
  2. The Propositional Nature of Thought
  3. Simulation and Replication
  4. Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and Nanotechnology
  5. Extraterrestrial Life

Part Four: SUBJECT AND OBJECT

  1. A Concious Relationship to Experience
  2. The Subject is No Object
  3. The Concept of Spiritual Freedom
  4. Play
  5. Formalism
  6. Games
  7. Time and Space
  8. Cycles and The Shadow of Thought
  9. Objectivity
  10. Identity and the Absolute
  11. Ego
  12. Emptiness

          Appendix to Section 17

          Footnotes

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