Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

Contents\r......Page p0009.djvu
Preface\r......Page p0011.djvu
Consciousness Is Like\rMoney......Page p0019.djvu
Are You Your Brain?......Page p0021.djvu
A Really Astonishing Hypothesis......Page p0023.djvu
A Note on Terminology, and the Thesis Restated......Page p0024.djvu
The Man with Two Brains......Page p0026.djvu
Consciousness in a Petri Dish?......Page p0028.djvu
Taking the Problem Seriously......Page p0030.djvu
Looking into the Head......Page p0033.djvu
The New Phrenology?......Page p0035.djvu
Conclusion: You Are Not Your Brain......Page p0040.djvu
2.\rConscious Life......Page p0041.djvu
Other Minds......Page p0042.djvu
"Theory of Mind"......Page p0045.djvu
Personal Intimacy......Page p0046.djvu
Accepting\rUngroundedness......Page p0048.djvu
Man's Best Friend......Page p0051.djvu
The Paradox of Mind and Science......Page p0055.djvu
Mind Is Life......Page p0057.djvu
Other Minds, Other Worlds......Page p0058.djvu
Conclusion: Understanding Ourselves......Page p0061.djvu
3. The Dynamics of\rConsciousness......Page p0063.djvu
Magical Membranes......Page p0064.djvu
No Man Is an Island......Page p0065.djvu
Neural Plasticity and Consciousness......Page p0069.djvu
Bridging the Gap......Page p0070.djvu
Sensory Substitution......Page p0072.djvu
Looking Beyond the Brain......Page p0074.djvu
Action in Perception......Page p0075.djvu
Back to Sensory Substitution......Page p0077.djvu
The Upshot......Page p0079.djvu
Brain and World......Page p0080.djvu
Conclusion: The Machinery of Mind Is Extended......Page p0081.djvu
4. Wide\rMinds......Page p0083.djvu
Where Do We Find Ourselves?......Page p0084.djvu
Magical Boundaries and the Rubber-Hand Illusion......Page p0086.djvu
Phantom Hands......Page p0091.djvu
The Body Schema......Page p0093.djvu
Extending the Body......Page p0094.djvu
Knowing One's Way About......Page p0097.djvu
Real Presence......Page p0098.djvu
The Case of French Air Traffic Controllers......Page p0100.djvu
Extending the Mind......Page p0103.djvu
Meaning Isn't in the Head......Page p0105.djvu
The Secret Lives of Snails......Page p0107.djvu
Where Do You Stop?......Page p0109.djvu
Conclusion: We Are Involved with the World......Page p0111.djvu
Creatures of Habit......Page p0113.djvu
From Novice to Expert......Page p0115.djvu
In the Beginning Was the Situation......Page p0116.djvu
The Language of Chess......Page p0120.djvu
The Language of Thought......Page p0122.djvu
The Many Faces of Expertise......Page p0126.djvu
"The Familiar Face of a Word"......Page p0130.djvu
Bad Habits......Page p0133.djvu
Good Habits......Page p0136.djvu
Trails......Page p0137.djvu
The Limits of the Known World......Page p0139.djvu
The Ecology of Habit......Page p0141.djvu
Conclusion: We Are Creatures of Habit\rand Habit Is World-Involving......Page p0143.djvu
The Creator Brain......Page p0145.djvu
Vision: A Case Study......Page p0146.djvu
The Miracle of Sight......Page p0147.djvu
The Inverted Retinal Image and the Cyclopean Character of Vision......Page p0148.djvu
The Retinal Image Is Unstable......Page p0149.djvu
Obstructions......Page p0150.djvu
Time......Page p0151.djvu
Pictures of the World in Mind......Page p0153.djvu
"The World Is Its Own\rModel"......Page p0156.djvu
Back to Vision......Page p0158.djvu
Doing Without the Creation Myth......Page p0162.djvu
Conclusion: Giving Up the Grand Illusion......Page p0163.djvu
The Visual Brain in Action......Page p0165.djvu
The Basic Project......Page p0167.djvu
Christopher Columbus and the Brain......Page p0170.djvu
The Computer Model of the Mind......Page p0173.djvu
Is the Brain an Information Processor, Really?......Page p0176.djvu
The Computational Brain......Page p0178.djvu
The Mind Is Not in the Head......Page p0180.djvu
The Mind-Body Problem for Robots......Page p0181.djvu
Flaws in the Foundations......Page p0182.djvu
Conclusion: Mind Is Not the Brain's Software......Page p0185.djvu
The Foundation Argument......Page p0187.djvu
Weak Foundations......Page p0189.djvu
The Devil Is in the Details......Page p0190.djvu
Real Minds. Virtual Reality......Page p0192.djvu
Dreaming......Page p0193.djvu
Conclusion: Even the Mind of a Brain in a Vat\rNeeds a Body and a World......Page p0197.djvu
Epilogue: Home Sweet\rHome......Page p0199.djvu
1: An Astonishing\rHypthesis......Page p0205.djvu
2: Conscious\rLife......Page p0207.djvu
3: The Dynamics of\rConsciousness......Page p0209.djvu
4: Wide\rMinds......Page p0211.djvu
5:\rHabits......Page p0213.djvu
6: The Grand\rIllusion......Page p0215.djvu
7: Voyages of\rDiscovery......Page p0217.djvu
8: A Nothing\rReserved for Everything......Page p0218.djvu
Acknowledgments\r......Page p0221.djvu
Index\r......Page p0223.djvu