Jerome Iglowitz
Current Précis: In a Nutshell: This is probably the best place to start!
NEW 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!
2. WHY: Mind: the Argument from Evolutionary Biology, ( Virtual Reality -A Working Model) (VIEW AS PDF)
This is an expansion and refinement of the second chapter of my
original book, (accessible below).
4. BOOKS –linked above
The
Original Book(contents):
Table of Contents, (Original Book): (all sections in PDF format).
(Note: Except for the highlighted,
hyperlinked listings, this is "list only".
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Introduction |
4 |
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Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism as a Non-representative Model) |
12 |
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18 |
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Preface to Chapter 2: the Logical Problem -and Realism Again |
37 |
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48 |
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Introduction to Chapters 3,4 and 5, (Towards a Resolution of the Paradox) |
81 |
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Chapter 3. Biology Part II: Towards the Where and the What? (Maturana) |
84 |
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Preface to Chapter 4 |
112 |
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113 |
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Preface to Chapter 5, (the Final Step) |
149 |
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150 |
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156 |
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161 |
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165 |
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Appendix B, (Isomorphism and Representation) |
170 |
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Appendix C, (Mind-Body and Artificial Intelligence: Hubert Dreyfus) |
173 |
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Appendix D: (Roger Penrose) |
183 |
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Appendix E: Dogmatic Materialism and Reality |
187 |
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190 |
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Appendix G: An Outline of the Semantic Argument, (for Philosophers) |
198 |
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Appendix H: Extended Abstract |
205 |
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208 |
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Appendix I: A Few Graphical Illustrations |
233 |
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Appendix J: An Elaboration of the Discussion of Chapter 1 |
237 |
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Bibliography |
243 |
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