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Introduction | p. 1 |
The post-reflective inner view | p. 7 |
The supposed dualism of inner and outer | p. 7 |
Introducing the private language remarks | p. 10 |
How philosophers talk | p. 13 |
Doing battle with the interlocutor | p. 16 |
Philosophical zombies | p. 20 |
The subjectivity of exotic life forms | p. 24 |
Thought experiments with peculiar scientists | p. 26 |
The subject adrift in time | p. 30 |
The proper silence of first philosophy | p. 34 |
Cognition and embodiment | p. 41 |
On having no body | p. 41 |
The biological roots of cognition | p. 43 |
The sensorimotor loop | p. 48 |
Behaviour selection | p. 51 |
The human edge | p. 54 |
Founding concepts | p. 58 |
Counting and infinity | p. 60 |
The space of possible minds | p. 64 |
Probing the internal | p. 67 |
The conscious/unconscious distinction | p. 67 |
Being on autopilot | p. 69 |
Introspective report | p. 71 |
Catching ourselves unawares | p. 77 |
The omnipotent psychologist | p. 80 |
Novelty and flexibility | p. 85 |
Accounting for the conscious condition | p. 89 |
Broadcast and the network | p. 95 |
The elements of global workspace theory | p. 95 |
Parallel specialist brain processes | p. 98 |
Neural computation | p. 102 |
Coalitions of coupled processes | p. 106 |
Integration and the conscious condition | p. 112 |
Influence and information | p. 115 |
The right connections | p. 118 |
The anatomy of a global workspace | p. 122 |
Neurodynamics | p. 131 |
From connectivity to behaviour | p. 131 |
Dynamics in focus | p. 137 |
Wandering among the attractors | p. 141 |
Dynamical complexity | p. 144 |
Fireflies of the mind | p. 149 |
Evident coherence | p. 154 |
The inner life | p. 159 |
The simulation hypothesis | p. 159 |
Simulation through a global workspace | p. 165 |
Open-ended affordance | p. 168 |
Conceptual blending | p. 171 |
Cognitive fluidity and the frame problem | p. 174 |
Space, time, and memory | p. 180 |
Remembering and reconstructing | p. 183 |
Talking to ourselves | p. 187 |
Bibliography | p. 193 |
Index | p. 211 |
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