Books and Papers:

Jerome Iglowitz

Current Précis: In a Nutshell: This is probably the best place to start!

NEW Book: (February 24, 2010) “Virtual Reallity: Consciousness Really Explained, 2^nd Edition. (This is a major expansion and improvement of the original book.

(Download for Free - PDF here), or buy from Lulu!) Note: This is a very large book, 606 pages, (almost 14 megabytes), so the download will take awhile depending, of course, on your connection speed.

Note:  Chapters 1 through 3: the Origins of my Conception might be of particular interest as they explain and validate my very different and original beginning perspective on this ancient problem.  Here is a link to mp3 versions of the chapters if you might be interested in listening to them on your IPod © while doing something else. It is a reasonable study tool but it lacks the explanatory diagrams, of course.

Original Book:

"Virtual Reality, (Consciousness Really Explained)", (First Edition 1998): MS Full Text - Word 7.0
Free Download (~800 Kbytes) (Original MS Word version)  I suggest you use MS Word's "view document map" option to stay organized.

· "Virtual Reality, (Consciousness Really Explained)", (First Edition): MS Full Text -PDF Free Download (~800 Kbytes)

· Note:  I am not offering an HTML version of the MS as it is impossible to preserve footnotes in that format and those are an integral part of my discussion. Use “bookmarks” view for overall organization.

Online Papers:

      1.. INTRO: The Mind-Brain Problem: An Introduction for Beginners (VIEW AS PDF) (Recommended) NEW
An overview - not necessarily only for beginners.  There are some interesting new ideas here!

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2.   WHY: Mind: the Argument from Evolutionary Biology, ( Virtual Reality -A Working Model) (VIEW AS PDF)

• This is an expansion and refinement of the first chapter of my original book, (accessible above).

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•   3.  HOW: A Shortcut to the Problem: Consciousness per se! (Recommended)  (VIEW AS PDF)

This is an expansion and refinement of the second chapter of my original book, (accessible below).

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4. BOOKS –linked above

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The Original Book(contents):

• Complete Ms linked above in MSWord and PDF formats
• Précis, ("20 Minutes and a Blackboard")    [HTML] (Very old version –see Current Précis listed above).
• A FEW GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS: ( PDF hyperlinks)

1. Edelman's Ontology
2. A Metacellular Perspective
3. Freeman’s Figure 2, (Note its close relationship to the figure immediately above)
4. A Compound Perspective:  Freeman and Beyond , “MIND_GRAPHIC”
5.   Bounds and Limits to Bio-Mechanical Evolution

• Current Précis: In a Nutshell
• Outline of Argument   - Old Abstract.  Recommended for Philosophers only!) [HTML]: most others would probably do better by starting with the Précis, and then the two online papers (above) which correspond to Chapters 1 and 2 of the Book respectively.  From there you had best go to the end of chapter 2 and go on in the book. (Note: a much more recent and hopefully much clearer Précis of my ideas is presented above as “In a Nutshell”.)

Table of Contents, (Original Book):   (all sections in PDF format).
(Note: Except for the highlighted, hyperlinked listings, this is "list only".

Introduction	4
Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism as a Non-representative Model)	12
Chapter 1.  Why? The Biological Problem: Part One	18
Preface to Chapter 2: the Logical Problem -and Realism Again	37
Chapter 2.  How? The Logical Problem of Consciousness	48
Introduction to Chapters 3,4 and 5, (Towards a Resolution of the Paradox)	81
Chapter 3. Biology Part II: Towards the Where and the What? (Maturana)	84
Preface to Chapter 4	112
Chapter 4: Cognition and Experience: Quine and Cassirer	113
Preface to Chapter 5, (the Final Step)	149
Chapter 5: What? The Substance of Mind	150
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Opinions	156
Chapter 7: Epilogue	161
Appendix A, (Information and Representation)	165
Appendix B, (Isomorphism and Representation)	170
Appendix C, (Mind-Body and Artificial Intelligence: Hubert Dreyfus)	173
Appendix D: (Roger Penrose)	183
Appendix E: Dogmatic Materialism and Reality	187
Appendix F: Dennett and "the Color Phi"	190
Appendix G: An Outline of the Semantic Argument, (for Philosophers)	198
Appendix H: Extended Abstract	205
Afterward: Lakoff, Edelman, and "Hierarchy"	208
Appendix I: A Few Graphical Illustrations	233
Appendix J:  An Elaboration of the Discussion of Chapter  1	237
Bibliography	243

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