Books and Papers:

Jerome Iglowitz

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

NEW Book: (June, 2010) “Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained, 3^nd Edition. (This is a major expansion and improvement of the original book. (Click here to buy from Lulu!)

(Download for Free - PDF of Latest Updated Draft version of the new third edition here), or buy from Lulu!) Note: This is a very large book, 606 pages, (over 5 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 free 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:

(Click here to buy from Lulu!)

"Virtual Reality, (Consciousness Really Explained)", (First Edition 1998): Free PDF Download I suggest you expand Adobe’s “Bookmark” tool to stay organized. (Note: this earlier edition is a more symmetrical presentation, but apparently lacks clarity in some aspects, especially of my second hypothesis. This is one of the reasons why I produced my third edition linked above.)

Online Papers:

      1..  INTRO: The Mind-Brain Problem: An Introduction for Beginners (VIEW AS PDF)
 ( 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! (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(, i.e. first edition 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, First Edition 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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Here is a link to the Table of Contents of my new 3^rd Edition: