Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Prologue
6. Turing indistinguishability and the blind watchmaker 3
7. Part I: Natural consciousness
8. Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism 21
9. The functions of consciousness 43
10. Sensations and grain processes 63
11. Part II: Special adaptations
12. Evolution, consciousness, and the language of thought 89
13. Why did evolution engineer consciousness? 111
14. Nothing without mind 139
15. Part III: Artificial consciousness
16. The emergence of grounded representations 163
17. Ago Ergo Sum 181
18. Evolving robot consciousness 205
19. Epilogue
20. The future with cloning 223
21. Subject index 239
22. Name index 247