Preface: The Study of World Models
Introduction: The Cartesian Homunculus Revisited
One. PHYSICS, BRAINS, AND WORLD MODELS
1. The Needle, the Haystack, and the Holomovement
2. World Models: Some Eastern Melodies
3. Interval: Meet the Metaphysical Fauna
Two. MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND THE DEMONIC COMPUTER
1. Demonics: Talking to Gezumpstein
2. Interlude: Gezumpstein's Teaching Tape
3. Demonics and the Phenomenal Time-Arrow: The Nine Lives of Schroedinger's Cat
4. Commercial Break: Gezumpstein's Charmed Balloons
Three. TIME AND BIOLOGY
1. Interlude: How the Bird and the Snake Played Evolutionary Scrabble
2. The Death of Vitalism: Implicate and Explicate in Biology
Four. MIND AND THE MAKING OF MODELS
1. Mind and the Psychiatry of World Models
2. A Few Instructive Fossils
3. Some Contemporary Considerations
Five. SINGULARITIES AND THE UNFAMILIAR
1. Interlude: The Ghost of Uncle Past
2. The Rank Outsider: Is Parapsychology Real, and Does It Matter?
3. Anxiety Dream: A Born-Again Demon?
Six. PATTERNS AND ARCHETYPES
1. The Peculiar Statements Made by Dreams
2. A Psychiatric Session
Afterword
Appendix A. Iterants
Appendix B. Quantum State as Superposition
Glossary
References
Index