- The Hard Problem Of Consciousness
- The Objectivity Of The Subjective
- Mary In Her Black And White Room
- Nagel’s Bat
- Zombies
- Not Everybody Likes The Hard Problem
- Is Consciousness Like Elan Vital?
- Is Consciousness An Illusion?
- Is Qualophilia A Failure Of Imagination?
- What Could There Be Besides “Normal” Physics?
- Goals, Non-Goals, And Ground Rules
- Folk Usage vs. Real Definitions
- You Can’t Even Define Your Terms!
- Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich?
- Caricatures Of Some Physicalist Arguments
- Evolution
- Big Dumptruck. Really Big Dumptruck.
- Correlation vs. Entailment
- Just-Is
- Am I Asking Too Much?
- Why I Am Optimistic
- Physicalism — Are We Really Living In A Material World?
- There’s No Such Thing As A Purely Physical World
- Supervenience
- Unimplemented API
- Rosenberg’s Game Of Life Physics
- What’s At The Bottom? Information? Nothing?
- Panpsychism? But Doesn’t That Have Huge Problems?
- Epiphenomenalism: Even If Consciousness Is Real, What Could It Possibly Do?
- Ned Block’s Turing Test Beater
- The Turing Test
- Block’s Answer
- Is Block Cheating?
- Can’t We Just Say That Consciousness Depends On The Higher-Level Organization Of The System?
- Functionalism, Broadly Construed
- Black Boxes
- Is The Design Inherent In The Implementation?
- A Hypothesis About Hypotheticals: Do Counterfactuals Count?
- What If We Prune The Untaken Paths?
- Integrated Information Theory
- Life Is Real. Isn’t It Defined “Merely” Functionally?
- What If We Gerrymander The Low-Level Components?
- Reductionism and Emergence: What Kinds Of Things Are There, Really?
- Reductionism
- Downward Causation
- Teleology
- Emergence
- How Naive Is Our Naive Realism About Our Mid-Level Chunks?
- The All-At-Onceness of Conscious Experience
- Neuron Replacement Therapy
- Thoughts Are Evidence Of Mid-Level Holism
- Functional Organization Can’t Solve Panpsychism’s Combination Problem
- Quantum Mechanics
- “Random” Is A Big Tent
- But Back To NRT
- Time Consciousness and the Specious Present
- My Notion of Motion
- Extentionalism
- Retentionalism
- Time-Quale?
- Time To Bite Another Metaphysical Bullet?
- Free Will
- Two Cheers For Compatibilism
- What Even Is Free Will?
- Thwarted Free Will Is Still Willful
- How Invasive Is The World?
- Free Will Is Inherently Creative
- Free Will Is Constitutive Of Self And Not Necessarily Non-Deterministic
- Free Will Is For Partless Wholes
- Do Large Partless Wholes Obey Laws?
- Does Anything Obey Laws?
- How Do The Big Things Interact With The Small Things?
- Who (Or What) Would Possess Free Will?
- How Many? How Long Lived?
- How Panpsychism Might Work
- The Combination Problem
- Particle Man
- Quantum Holism And Chaos
- Holism And Its Discontents
- Pandemonium!
- Daniel Dennett
- The Infinite Regress of the Cartesian Theater
- Dennett’s Pandemonium
- The Center Of Narrative Gravity
- What Pandemonium Gets Wrong Or Leaves Out
- How Many Demons Are There?
- Darwinian Memosphere of Demons
- Broad And Narrow Niches
- The Spotlight of Attention
- Synthesis/Analysis Feedback Loop
- Background Demons
- Antimemes
- Epistemically Hungry Agencies
- Fine, But What About Consciousness?
- Strangely Swimming Conscious Demons
- The Players Are The Audience
- The Self
- Self As Status Register
- Do Qualia Beg The Self Question?
- Holism — The Real Sticking Point
- Cognitive Qualia
- My Phenomenal Twin
- The Qualia Of Thought
- Naive, Or Pure Experience
- Dennett on “Direct” Perception Vs. Judgment
- Naive, Or Pure Cognition
- Doesn’t It All Just Come Down To Information?
- What Even Is Information, Anyway?
- Information Is A Platonic Abstraction
- Information Represents
- Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Information
- Example Using Boolean AND
- Information Pokes, Pushes, or Nudges
- Self-Reference
- All Models Are Algorithms
- Internal Models As Black Boxes
- The Algorithmic Intuition
- The Data Intuition
- What Is It Like To Know?
- Descriptive Information Is A Projection, And Weird
- Reference: Picking Out
- Extension, Intension, and Possible Worlds
- Who Is “Albert Einstein”?
- Putnam’s Twin Earth
- Saul Kripke
- Hesperus And Phosphorus
- Modes Of Presentation
- The Contents Of Our Thoughts
- Picking Out, Functionally
- Being Scientifically Correct Vs. Being Linguistically Correct
- Putting Meaning Back In The Head
- Reference: Turning Out
- Two Dimensional Semantics
- Turning Out
- Symbol Resolution
- Early vs. Late Binding
- Haters Gonna Hate: Some Tautologies
- How Should We Think About Reference?
- Reference Internalized
- The Reality Between Our Ears
- It’s Often Wrong
- It’s Mostly Holes
- We Take Our Model With A Grain Of Salt
- Internalism Isn’t Right, Exactly, Except It Kind Of Is
- Conclusion
- Basic Metaphysics
- Taking Qualia Seriously
- Holism
- Time
- Structure and Relation, Phenomenologized
- My Favorite Model: Pandemonium
- My Teeth Hurt
- References
- About The Author