Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves

CONTENTS\nFOREWORD\nI OVERVIEW\n1. THE MYSTERY OF PURPOSE\n2. THE BIGGEST MYSTERY WE EVER IGNORE\n3. DEACON’S SOLUTION IN BRIEF\nII FRAMING THE MYSTERY\n4. TWO SOURCES OF CHANGE\n5. SELVES\n6. TWO GHOSTS, TWO MACHINES\n7. INTERPRETATION\n8. AIMS\n9. EVOLUTION’S LIMITED LIMITING ROLE\nIII DEAD ENDS, LIVE CLUES\n10. THE HISTORY\n11. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY’S ELUSIVE SELF\n12. INFORMATION ABOUT NOTHING FOR ANYONE\n13. THE ENGINEERED GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINES\n14. SMALL IS DUBIOUS\nIV GROUNDING A SOLUTION\n15. PROCESSES OF EMERGENT ELIMINATION\n16. SECOND LAW IRREGULARITY\n17. EMERGENT REGULARIZATION\n18. EMERGENT REGULARIZATION VS. EMERGENT SELF-REGENERATION\n19. OTHER EMERGENT REGULARIZATION DYNAMICS\n20. COUPLED REGULARIZATION PROCESSES\nV DEACON’S SOLUTION\n21. AUTOGENS: SELF-GENERATORS\n22. EVOLVED AUTOGENS\n23. WHERE IS THE SELF?\n24. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SELF-REGENERATION\nVI THE INTERPRETING SELF\n25. CODES, SIGNS, INTERPRETERS\n26. KINDS OF SIGNS\nVII IMPLICATIONS\n27. A CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY\n28. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FREE WILL DEBATE?\n29. MAKING SCIENCE SAFE FOR VALUE\nAcknowledgments\nAppendix\nNotes\nIndex