The Creative Loop: How The Brain Makes A Mind

Preface 
Introduction
THE UNIVERSE
The IT and the It 
What It Has Done for Us 
The Anthropic Principle 
Spontaneous Animation 
Origin of Life 
Creative Animation: End Before Cause 
The March of the Androids 
The Indigenous Android and the Promethean Gene 
BODY AND MIND 
McCulloch’s Query: Why the Mind Is in the Head 
The Nuts and Bolts of Mind 
The Senses 
Neurons 
The Neural Net 
Up and Down: Sensors and Effectors 
S and R 
Searching for the Pinnacle 
Artificial Nets 
Vision: Early Processing 
Up the Visual Pathway 
...and Down 
Perception, Imagery, and Creativity 
Perception 
The Internal Sketchpad and the Creative Loop 
Imagery and Creativity 
IMAGE AND REALITY 
Images of Reality—Reality of Images 
The Picture-in-the-Head 
Alopex: A Mechanism for Pattern Generation 
Unreal Images 
Dynamics of Brain and Mind 
Time and Space in Brain and Mind 
Chaos and Determinism 
Psychoneural Identity? 
A Progression of Mirrors 
The Joycean Machine 
Beyond the Self-horizon 
THE WORLD SHE SANG
The Elusive Self 
Choice and Selfhood 
Take Me to Your Leader 
Dividing the Indivisible One 
Beam Me Up, Scottie! 
The Wedge of Consciousness 
What is Consciousness? 
Is Consciousness Real? 
The Mysterious Monitor
Chapter 15
Appendix:
The Creative Loop 
Four Attributes 
The Model 
Chance with a Purpose 
Man and Machine: Homo ex Machina 
Magic Trick 
Does the Brain Compute? 
The Turing Test 
How Do We Think? 
The Measure of All Things or ‘‘Don’t Copy That Floppy’’ 
Hill Climbing and the Optimization Problem 
The Alopex Optimization Algorithm 
The Picture-in-the-Head as an Optimization Problem 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index