Preface
vii
Acknowledgements
x
  1  Preliminaries: ants and robots, parlour games and steam drills 
1
Background 2
Outline 8
Notes 11
PART I
Informational environments
13
2 Resurrecting Dretskean information
15
Information, behaviour and probability 15
The content of natural information, and some discontent 20
Alternative views of information 25
Natural information and the roots of intentionality 28
Notes 32
3 Varieties of perception
34
Perception as information processing: the computational view 35
Information specifies affordances: the ecological view 39
Perceptual illusions vs. misperception: the empirical
strategy 46
Notes 55
4 The domains of natural information
56
Natural information and reference classes 57
Informational domains 65
Resurrection at last 74
Notes 75
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