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Index
Cover Title Contents List of Illustrations Preface Part I: Turning our world upside down
1. Introduction
Welcome to the jungle A bird’s-eye view of the journey The Cartesian wound Cartesian gravity
2. Before Bacteria and Bach
Why Bach? How investigating the prebiotic world is like playing chess
3. On the Origin of Reasons
The death or rebirth of teleology? Different senses of “why” The evolution of “why”: from how come to what for Go forth and multiply
4. Two Strange Inversions of Reasoning
How Darwin and Turing broke a spell Ontology and the manifest image Automating the elevator The intelligent designers of Oak Ridge and GOFAI
5. The Evolution of Understanding
Animals designed to deal with affordances Higher animals as intentional systems: the emergence of comprehension Comprehension comes in degrees
Part II: From evolution to intelligent design
6. What Is Information?
Welcome to the Information Age How can we characterize semantic information? Trade secrets, patents, copyright, and Bird’s influence on bebop
7. Darwinian Spaces: An Interlude
A new tool for thinking about evolution Cultural evolution: inverting a Darwinian Space
8. Brains Made of Brains
Top-down computers and bottom-up brains Competition and coalition in the brain Neurons, mules, and termites How do brains pick up affordances? Feral neurons?
9. The Role of Words in Cultural Evolution
The evolution of words Looking more closely at words How do words reproduce?
10. The Meme’s-Eye Point of View
Words and other memes What’s good about memes?
11. What’s Wrong with Memes? Objections and Replies
Memes don’t exist! Memes are described as “discrete” and “faithfully transmitted,” but much in cultural change is neither Memes, unlike genes, don’t have competing alleles at a locus Memes add nothing to what we already know about culture The would-be science of memetics is not predictive Memes can’t explain cultural features, while traditional social sciences can Cultural evolution is Lamarckian
12. The Origins of Language
The chicken-egg problem Winding paths to human language
13. The Evolution of Cultural Evolution
Darwinian beginnings The free-floating rationales of human communication Using our tools to think The age of intelligent design Pinker, Wilde, Edison, and Frankenstein Bach as a landmark of intelligent design The evolution of the selective environment for human culture
Part III: Turning our minds inside out
14. Consciousness as an Evolved User-Illusion
Keeping an open mind about minds How do human brains achieve “global” com prehension using “local” competences? How did our manifest image become manifest to us? Why do we experience things the way we do? Hume’s strange inversion of reasoning A red stripe as an intentional object What is Cartesian gravity and why does it persist?
15. The Age of Post-Intelligent Design
What are the limits of our comprehension? “Look Ma, no hands!” The structure of an intelligent agent What will happen to us? Home at last
Illustrations Appendix: The Background References Index About the Author Also by Daniel C. Dennett Copyright
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