Brainchildren_ essays on designing minds

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Contents Preface I Philosophy of Mind 1 Can Machines Think? Postscript [1985]: Eyes, Ears, Hands, and History Postscript [1997] 2 Speaking for Our Selves Nicholas Humphrey and Daniel C. Dennett Postscript 3 Do-It-Yourself Understanding 4 Two Contrasts: Folk Craft versus Folk Science, and Belief versus Opinion 5 Real Patterns 6 Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology 7 Real Consciousness 8 Instead of Qualia 9 The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot 10 The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies: Commentary on Moody, Flanagan, and Polger II Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life 11 Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of Al 12 Producing Future by Telling Stories 13 The Logical Geography of Computational Approaches: A View from the East Pole 14 Hofstadter's Quest: A Tale of Cognitive Pursuit 15 Foreword to Robert French, The Subtlety of Sameness 16 Cognitive Science as Reverse Engineering: Several Meanings of "Top-Down" and "Bottom-Up" 17 Artificial Life as Philosophy 18 When Philosophers Encounter Artificial Intelligence 19 Review of Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition III Ethology, Animal Mind 20 Out of the Armchair and into the Field 21 Cognitive Ethology: Hunting for Bargains or a Wild Goose Chase 22 Do Animals Have Beliefs? 23 Why Creative Intelligence Is Hard to Find: Commentary on Whiten and Byrne 24 Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why Postscript: Pain, Suffering, and Morality IV Standing Back 25 Self-Portrait 26 Information, Technology, and the Virtues of Ignorance Bibliography Index