Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Figure Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 The Origins of Life
- 2 The Reductionist Nightmare
- 3 Ant Country
- 4 Winning Ways
- 5 Universals and Parochials
- 6 Neural Nests
- 7 Features Great and Small
- 8 What is it Like to be a Human?
- 9 We Wanted to Have a Chapter on Free Will, but We Decided not to, so Here It Is
- 10 Extelligence
- 11 Simplex, Complex, Multiplex
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Figure Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 The Origins of Life
- 2 The Reductionist Nightmare
- 3 Ant Country
- 4 Winning Ways
- 5 Universals and Parochials
- 6 Neural Nests
- 7 Features Great and Small
- 8 What is it Like to be a Human?
- 9 We Wanted to Have a Chapter on Free Will, but We Decided not to, so Here It Is
- 10 Extelligence
- 11 Simplex, Complex, Multiplex
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
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- Figments of RealityThe Evolution of the Curious Mind, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997