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• Introduction
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• What Others Are Saying
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• Table of Contents:
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Part One: MIND AND MATTER
1. The Real
2. The Situation of Embodiment
3. The Subjective Frame
4. Some Mind-Body Problems
5. The Ghost in the Machine
6. Skepticism, or the Problem of Knowledge
7. Other Minds, Other Bodies
8. The Reality Principle
9. Self-Reference and Subjectivity
10. Paradox and the Subjective Frame
11. The Ground of Experience
• Part Two: INTENTION AND EXTENSION
12. Causality
13. Intentionality
14. The "Mathematical" Meaning of Meaning
15. What it is Like to Be an Intentional System
16. The Problem of Cognitive Domains
17. Coloring it Real
18. De-realizing the World
19. The Evolution of Conciousness
• Part Three: CONTENT AND FORM
20. Analog and Digital
21. The Propositional Nature of Thought
22. Simulation and Replication
23. Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and Nanotechnology
24. Extraterrestrial Life
• Part Four: SUBJECT AND OBJECT
25. A Concious Relationship to Experience
26. The Subject is No Object
27. The Concept of Spiritual Freedom
28. Play
29. Formalism
30. Games
31. Time and Space
32. Cycles and The Shadow of Thought
33. Objectivity
34. Identity and the Absolute
35. Ego
36. Emptiness
• Appendix to Section 17
• Footnotes
• About the Author

• Sculpture
• About the Artist
• Gallery
• In the Beginning
• Know Thy Self
• That Thou Art
• The Announcement
• The Dancing Goddess
• Promises to Keep
• Dancing Goddess II
• Spring
• Autumn
• Summer
• Be Still and Know That I Am
• Study for "Winter"
• Heroic Man
• A Collection of Poems by Dan Bruiger
• Short Essays by Dan Bruiger
• Alienation of the Body
• Androgeny and the Feminine Vision
• Artificial Economy
• Ascensionism
• Battle of the Sexes
• Biological Entrapment
• Burden of Self-Consciousness
• Carnal Knowledge
• Categorical Imperative
• Centralized Hierarchy
• Claustrophobia as the Human Condition
• Consumer Power
• Consumer Welfarism
• Continuity of Science and Religion
• Control of Technology
• Dark Side of Woman
• Darwinist Tautology
• Denial of Death
• Dialectical Cycle
• Dilemma of World Unity
• Disenchanting the World
• Domination of Nature
• Dreams of Ultimate Freedom
• Dualism
• Dualism Writ Large
• Eclipse of the Feminine
• Embodiment
• Emptiness of Modernity
• Ethics and Ingrouping
• Expendable Consumers
• Futurist Pinocchio
• Gender Wars
• Genderless Sexuality
• Genetic Versus Somatic Interest
• Genuine Individualism
• Global Monoculture
• Globalist Rhetoric
• Good Samaritan
• Heroic and Ironic
• Human Empire
• Human Footprint
• Humanist Debacle
• I Am No Thing
• Ideal of Objectivity
• Idealism Subverted
• Ideality
• Ideology of Progress
• If Women Ruled the World
• Individualism Reconsidered
• Inspiration by Example
• Intensional Lover
• Is Nature Unnatural?
• Limits of Simulation
• Limits to Progress
• Male Insecurity
• Masculine God
• Masculine Mystery
• Man-Made World
• Mechanized Economics
• Mind-Body Problem
• Monologue With Nature
• Morality Versus Ethics
• Nature and Mechanism
• Nature of Power
• Neutered Libido
• No Man Is an Island
• Obscene Wealth
• On Being Dead
• On Consumer Greed
• On Gadgets
• On the Representational Theory of Perception
• Only Artifacts Are Deterministic
• Over (Re)Production
• Personhood
• Pharmaceuticals Contraindicated
• Plurality of Worlds
• Posthuman Allegory
• Price of Progress
• Problem of Political Will
• Quarantine of the Feminine
• Quest to Play God
• Questionable Manhood
• Romance of Tristan and Isolde
• Revenge Against Nature
• Sacred Nature
• Safe Sex
• Self-Censorship
• Sexual Collusion
• Sexual Materialism
• Science as Modern Myth
• Secret Human Project
• Self-Conscious Animal
• Shadow Work
• Shevolution
• Technology and the Shrinking Middle Class
• Thought Ergo Thinker
• Threat Behind Terrorism
• Triumph of Capitalism
• Ultimate Geneology
• Unisex Society
• View From Nowhere
• Virtual Heaven
• Western Hypocrisy
• What is it like to be a Self?
• Widening Poverty Gap
• Woman as Status Symbol
• World Machine
• Zero Sum Game