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Contents
Beyond Kant: Created Worlds of Other Animals
47
Centrally Controlled Organisms
48
4 The Animal Sensorium
51
Feeling-Matter
51
Structure of the Sensorium
54
The Sensory Basis of Knowledge
57
The Sensory Basis of Meaning
59
The Grand Design
62
The Role of Emotion
65
5 The Mind-Made Firmament
67
Carving up the World
67
How a Scheme of Segmentation Comes to Be
69
Category Formation. Reification
72
Realism
75
The Picture-Postcard Theory of Reality
79
For the Mind, Reality Is Whole
82
6 In Search of Reality
89
Facts
89
The Map and the Territory
93
Another Perspective on Facts
94
Facts and Information
96
Facts and the Scientific World Picture
100
7 Materialism: The Brain As Computer
105
Mind and Matter
105
The Mary Chronicles
107
The Heart of Physicalism
111
Beyond Physicalism
116
Materialism and Objectivity
117
8 The Universe Observed and Unobserved
121
Addition of Simples
121
Life Stages of the Universe
125
Phenomena
130
Mind and Cosmos
134
Why Do Things Exist?
139
The Mind in Physics : Quantum Bayesianism
141