Information and consciousness : An exploration.

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Inquiring into Information
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Information Theory
1.3 Information and Materialism
1.4 Other Ideas of Information
1.5 A Theory of Information
1.6 Meaning
1.7 Truth
1.8 Summary
Chapter 2: Information and Semiotics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Semiotics through Time
2.3 Saussure
2.4 Peirce
2.5 The Thought of Some Other Semioticians
2.6 Søren Brier
2.7 Integrating Semiotics and Information
2.8 Discussion

Chapter 3: The "Standard" Model of Consciousness
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Daniel Dennett's Thought
3.3 (Re)turn to Materialism
3.4 What Is in the Brain?
3.5 Some Contemporary Views
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4: Alternative Models of Consciousness
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Critiques of the Standard Model
4.3 Some Conceptual Alternatives
4.4 John Searle
4.5 Intentionality
4.6 Embodied Consciousness
4.7 The Phenomenological Approach
4.8 Discussion
Chapter 5: Connections between Consciousness and Information
5.1 Introduction
5.2 John Searle Revisited

5.3 The Dialectic of Information and Consciousness
5.4 Semiotics and Consciousness
5.5 Embodied/Extended Consciousness and Information
5.5.1 Embodiment
5.5.2 Perception, Expanded
5.4.3 Extended Consciousness
5.6 Information and Intentionality
5.7 Things Can Go Wrong: Disinformation
5.8 How This Works
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author