T H E

MIND’S I

FANTASIES AND REFLECTIONS ON SELF AND SOUL

DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

And

DANIEL C. DENNETT

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

· Introduction

· I. A Sense of Self

• 1. Borges and I (Jorge Luis Borges)
• 2. On Having No Head (D.E. Harding)
• 3. Rediscovering the Mind (Harold J. Morowitz)

· II. Soul Searching

• 4. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (A.M. Turing)
• 5. The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• 6. The Princess Ineffabelle (Stanislaw Lem)
• 7. The Sould of Martha, a Beast (Terrel Miedaner)
• 8. The Soul of the Mark III Beast (Terrel Miedaner)

· III. From Hardware to Software

• 9. Spirit (Allen Weelis)
• 10. Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes (Richard Dawkins)
• 11. Prelude...Ant Fugue (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• 12. The Story of a Brain (Arnold Zuboff)

· IV. Mind as Program

• 13. Where Am I? (Daniel C. Dennett)
• 14. Where Was I (David Hawley Sanford)
• 15. Beyond Rejection (Justin Leiber)
• 16. Software (Rudy Rucker)
• 17. The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution (Christopher Cherniak)

· V. Created Selves and Free Will

• 18. The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good (Stanislaw Lem)
• 19. Non Serviam (Stanislaw Lem)
• 20. Is God a Taoist? (Raymond M. Smullyan)
• 21. The Circular Ruins (Jorge Luis Borges)
• 22. Minds, Brains, and Programs (John R. Searle)
• 23. An Unfortunate Dualist (Raymond M. Smullyan)

· VI. The Inner Eye

• 24. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (Thomas Nagel)
• 25. An Epistemological Nightmare (Raymond M. Smullyan)
• 26. A Conversation with Einstein's Brain (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• 27. Fiction (Robet Nozick)