The creative loop: how the brain makes a mind

Abstract

PART ONE THE UNIVERSE: The I and the It What It Has Done for Us - the anthropic principle Spontaneous Animation - origin of life Creative Animation - End Before Cause - The March of the Androids, The Indigenous Android and the Promethean Gene. PART TWO BODY AND MIND: McCulloch's Query - Why the Mind is in the Head The Nuts and Bolts of Mind - The Senses, Neurons, The Neural Net, Up and Down - Sensors and Effectors, S and R, Searching for the Pinnacle, Artificial Nets Vision - Early Processing - Up the Visual Pathway, ...and down Perception, Imagery, and Creativity - Perception, The Internal Sketchpad and the Creative Loop, Imagery and Creativity. PART THREE IMAGE AND REALITY: Images of Reality - Reality of Images - The Picture-in-the-Head, Alopex - A Mechanism for Pattern Generation, Unreal Images Dynamics of Brain and Mind - Time and Space in Brain and Mind, Chaos and Determinism, Psychoneural Identity? A Progression of Mirrors - The Joycean Machine, Beyond the Self-horizon. PART FOUR THE WORLD SHE SANG: The Elusive Self - Choice and Selfhood, Take Me to Your Leader, Dividing the Indivisible One, Beam Me Up, Scottie! The Wedge of Consciousness - What is Consciousness?, Is Consciousness Real?, The Mysterious Monitor, Four Attributes, The Model, Chance with a Purpose Man and Machine - Homo ex Machina - Magic Trick, Does the Brain Compute?, The Turing Test, How Do We Think? The Measure of All Things or Don't Copy That Floppy. Appendices: Hill Climbing and the Optimization Problem The Alopex Optimization Algorithm The Picture-in-the-Head as an Optimization Problem.