Index

• Aboutness 5, 200–202, 224, 228

• Absolute object 79

• Actual object 4, 5, 19, 61, 67–94, 98, 99, 101, 106, 112, 121–125, 142, 159, 177, 190, 191, 193, 202, 205–207, 211, 226

• Actual present 132

• Affordances xi 214, 215

• Afterimages 162–168, 169–171

• Alberti, Leon Battista 14

• Alexander, Samuel 73

• Alexander’s dictum 73, 80

• Alleged properties 145, 146, 147

• Animal vivente 42, 205

• Apparent temperature 182–185

• Appenines 83

• Apple 2, 3

• Argument from misperception (illusion or hallucination) xi 16, 18, 36, 73, 123, 130, 136, 143, 144

• Aristotelian soul 24

• Aristotle 24, 174

• Armstrong, David 1, 6, 23, 45, 47, 176

• ASCII code 108

• Astronomical object 5

• Bach, Johann Sebastian

• Bacon, Francis 95

• Benham Top 146

• Berkeley, George 54, 212

• Bilbo Baggins 59

• Bile 1

• Block, Ned 34, 35, 36, 48, 49, 214, 219

• Board 83

• Bonnet, Charles 149

• Botticelli’s Venus 125, 126, 127

• Brain in a vat 34, 35, 36, 42

• Brain 15, 17, 53, 56, 57, 58, 63, 71, 82, 91, 100–103, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 118, 119, 122, 123, 126, 126, 132, 133, 137, 128, 141, 143, 144, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157, 159, 161, 161, 166, 173, 174, 175, 190, 194, 198, 199, 207, 209, 211, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228

• BRAINBOUND 34, 47–49, 50, 51, 54, 141

• Brecht, Berthold 10

• Brentano, Franz 200

• Brewer, Bill 147, 216

• Brunelleschi, Pippo 14

• Byte 13

• Camera Obscura 15

• Campbell, John 40

• Cartesian materialism xi 14, 17, 22–4, 56, 185, 209, 221

• Cartesian mind 56, 185, 221

• Cartesian Theater 17, 209

• Casual object 4, 5

• Causal power 73, 74, 84

• Chalmers, David ix, xii, 1, 2, 3, 17, 31, 34, 38, 46, 56, 198, 209, 219, 223, 229

• Change 119, 122, 127, 172, 176, 185, 186, 188

• Charles Bonnet Syndrome 37, 137, 149, 157, 158, 159, 160

• Clark, Andy xi, xii, 2, 3, 46, 56, 206

• Cognitive science 7, 15, 16, 23, 189, 193

• Cohen, Jonathan 60, 82

• Color xi 12, 13, 23, 26, 38, 40, 46, 60, 82, 83, 93, 96, 123, 124, 125, 127, 129, 131, 134, 136, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 161, 162–172, 179, 185, 186, 188, 191, 195, 199, 203, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210

• Common-kind assumption 18, 19, 20, 141–144

• Computation 16, 23, 51, 194, 211

• Computer 15, 17, 18, 23, 58, 108–9, 189, 207, 208–10

• Congenitally blind subjects 38, 131, 133, 150, 153–156, 213

• Congenitally limbless subjects 159

• Constellation 76, 78, 83, 88, 94, 105, 111, 113, 187, 190, 175

• Copernicus, Nicolaus ix, x, 13, 21, 177, 224, 225

• Cortical localization 20

• Crick, Francis 1

• Dagger 131, 141, 142

• Davis, Sammy 32

• Della Porta, Giovan Battista 15, 155

• Democritus 14

• Dennett, Daniel 14, 22, 27, 41, 42, 51, 52, 53, 201

• Descartes, René 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 42, 43, 92, 97, 136, 142, 178, 220, 221

• Dewey, John 23

• Direct stimulation of the brain 151

• Djinn 32

• Double slit experiment 116, 117

• Dowe, Phil 100, 101

• Dreams xi 3, 5, 17, 18, 24, 34, 36, 37, 38, 41, 54, 55, 56, 97, 102, 109, 113, 121, 122, 123, 127, 130–143, 149, 150, 156, 157, 158, 213, 231

• Dualism 12, 22, 23, 46, 48, 60, 63, 159, 178, 179, 216, 220, 221

• Dustbin, mind as 8, 19, 58, 194, 196

• Earth x 53, 55, 60, 63, 74, 75, 76, 80, 85, 94, 101, 111, 116, 117, 146, 147, 181, 195, 224, 225, 227

• Ebbinghaus illusion 146

• Eddington, Arthur 9, 10, 11

• Eidolon 14

• Einstein, Albert 1, 111, 115, 186

• Eleatic principle 73

• Eliot, Thomas Sterne 121

• Emergence xi 3, 23, 31, 45, 48, 59, 100, 211, 229

• Enactivism xi, xii, 1, 2, 21, 34, 212–214

• Entorhinal cortex 199

• Environment xi 15, 16, 17, 21, 28, 34, 56, 70, 99, 100–107, 109, 121, 123, 132, 132, 133, 137, 139, 146, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 165, 172, 182, 184, 194, 203, 214

• Epiphenomenal 13, 23, 67, 69, 76, 77

• Esophagus 14

• Esse est percipi 54

• Evian Illusion 146

• Evolution 46

• Extended environment 106, 121, 138

• Externalism xi, xii, 1, 2, 211

• Extraordinary hallucinations,

• Eye 14

• Fat 15

• Father Burdin 92–93

• Feyerabend, Paul ix

• Fly 114, 115, 119

• Flying pink elephant 139

• Freud, Sigmund 17, 225

• Frog 20

• Function 20, 21

• Gaia 153

• Galilean apple 80, 96

• Galilean object 69, 79, 80, 89, 90, 91, 96, 122, 123, 125, 185, 205, 220, 229

• Galileo 7, 10, 20

• Galle, Johann Gottfried 69

• Galvani, Giovanni 20

• Gazzaniga, Michael 31

• Gerrymandered object 190, 206

• Glasses 83, 98, 100, 126, 127

• Gottero, Mountain 84

• Gravity theory 46

• Groucho, Marx 7, 8, 12, 43, 121

• H2O 2

• Hallucination 18, 19, 37, 38, 127, 143, 149–172

• Hallucinatory model of perception 16–18

• Harnad, Stevan 194, 195, 196

• Harvey, William 20

• Hearth 20

• Helmholtz, Hermann von 164, 165, 167

• Henry II of Valois 20, 27

• Higgs Boson 57

• Homunculus 24–26

• Human Body 1, 20, 21

• Hume’s blue 130, 131, 149

• Hurvich, Leo 169, 170, 171

• Huxley, Thomas 32

• Ideal object 69

• Idealism 54, 60, 72, 73, 76, 81, 121, 124, 179, 212

• Identity theory 1

• Igor 29

• Illusions 36–37, 38, 144–149

• Impossible color 38, 169

• Inception 17

• Incorrigibility 192, 193

• Information theory 16, 51, 209

• Information ix, xi, 3, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 51, 52, 100, 112, 122, 166, 209, 211, 225

• Informavore 14

• Inner world 24–26, 56–58, 150

• Inside Out 17

• Integrated information 21, 224

• Intentionality xiii 2, 4, 5, 39, 40, 46, 95, 174, 200–202, 208, 228, 231

• Internalism 1, 6, 13, 33, 34

• Jackson’s Mary 130

• James, William 13, 37, 111, 164, 211

• Joan of Arc 28

• Johnston, Mark 15, 37, 143, 163, 169, 170

• Joint effect 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98 112, 139, 205, 230

• Jupiter 110

• Kant, Immanuel 12, 16, 42, 188, 218

• Kemp, Martin 14

• Kendrick, James 197

• Kennedy, John 153, 154, 155

• Key 74

• Kim, Jaegwon 33, 48, 73, 74

• Koch, Cristof 34, 35, 47, 48, 132, 162, 163, 168

• Lake and dam xii 95, 96, 99

• Language 28, 52, 59, 60, 61, 62, 93, 96, 124, 189, 191

• Leibniz, Gottfried 118

• Leonardo da Vinci 14, 155

• Light speed 5, 110, 186

• Living Organism 20, 42, 205

• Louvre 70, 97

• MacPherson, Fiona 20, 133, 141, 162, 163, 167, 168

• Magritte, René 43

• Mailman 16

• Marr, David 15

• Mars 115

• Martian Color 38

• Martin, Dean 32

• Martin, Steve 29, 34

• Materialism 1, 48

• Matrix 17

• Measurement 80, 84, 86, 92, 95, 116, 117, 145, 166, 173, 178, 179, 180, 183, 184, 186, 187, 240

• Meditation 54, 157

• Memory 15, 17, 19, 23, 58, 108, 112, 123, 139, 157, 208

• Mental imagery 154, 156, 213

• Mental screen 3

• Mental theatre 16

• Mercury 57

• Merricks, Trenton 76, 77

• Microconsciousness 35

• Migraine aura 37, 38

• Miller, George A. 13, 14

• Millikan, Ruth 42

• Mind-Body problem 22–23

• Mind-object identity ix 1, 3, 4, 8, 45–65, 67, 74, 90, 91, 119, 121, 122, 125, 129, 130, 142, 147, 149–151, 153, 154, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 171, 177, 190, 193, 203, 204, 205, 211, 212, 215, 217, 219, 220, 221, 225, 229, 231

• Misbeliefs 36, 145, 146

• Misperception xi, xiii, 5, 18, 36–38, 123, 145, 147, 179, 226

• Missing shade of blue 130

• MIT 62, 111

• Modes of perception 124–127

• Modes of presentation 10

• Mona Lisa 70, 97

• Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition 31

• Moon 71, 72, 110, 123, 135, 146, 147, 181, 195, 208

• Movie in the head 17

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 31

• Muller-Lyer Illusion 144, 145, 146, 147

• Muscle 20

• Nagel, Thomas 1, 47, 48, 49, 136, 173, 202, 203, 204

• Naïve materialism xiii 7–31, 67, 173, 178, 182, 185, 201

• Naïve object 69, 70, 71, 121, 124

• Neptune 69

• Neural activity xii 3, 5, 18, 19, 21, 28, 31, 33, 35, 36, 46, 50, 51, 64, 72, 88, 97, 103, 105, 109, 110, 112, 114, 118, 119, 127, 134, 135, 137, 138, 142, 143, 149, 157, 202, 214

• Neural process xi, xii, 33, 34, 46, 51, 53, 93, 110, 112, 122, 133, 177, 201

• Noë, Alva xi 21, 35, 35, 213, 214

• Noumenon 16, 26, 39, 42, 91, 174, 179, 187, 188, 214, 219

• Now 12

• Number crunching 13

• O’Regan, Kevin xi 21, 145, 213, 214

• OBJECTBOUND 49, 50, 51

• Object-Object problem 22–23, 24

• Optic Nerve 14

• Oxygen 28

• Panpsychism 2, 12, 219, 220

• Parmenides 67

• Pebble 193

• Penfield, Wilder 134, 151, 152

• Perception 13

• Perceptronium 19, 21, 224

• Perceptual error 16, 36, 38, 146, 189–192

• Perceptual experience 3

• Perceptual gravity, center of 27

• Percipere est esse 54

• Perspectivalness 12, 39, 204, 205

• Phenomenal character 10, 17, 18

• Phenomenal character xiii 10, 16, 18, 36, 40, 43, 46, 55, 122, 125, 128, 177, 220, 228

• Phenomenal experience 10

• Philosophical rat pack 32, 33, 42, 43, 144, 163, 199, 227

• Phosphenes 37, 226

• Photography 15, 93, 116, 161, 199

• Photon 15, 35, 85, 100, 107, 112, 116, 117, 118, 186, 187

• Phylyshyn, Zenon 14

• PHYSICAL 49, 50

• Physicalism 10, 11, 23, 33, 46, 49, 50, 51, 54, 123, 142, 175, 196, 199, 211, 219, 225, 226

• Physics-alism 11, 18, 39, 174, 178, 194, 196

• Physiology 20–22, 34, 41, 137, 138, 156, 157, 164

• Physics 51, 185, 231

• Pinker, Steven 14

• Plato 16, 59, 69, 90, 131, 178, 189, 195

• Platon’s cave 16, 59, 69, 90, 131, 178, 189, 195

• Point of view 53

• Ponzo, illusion of 146

• Popper, Karl

• Present xiii 12, 17, 59, 64, 71, 82, 104, 106, 110–119, 121, 127, 132, 134, 136, 137, 158, 159, 162, 194, 202

• Presentationalism 40, 211

• Privacy 12, 206

• Protagoras 95

• Proximal environment 123, 137, 138, 157

• Proxy properties 145, 146, 147

• Punched Cards 18

• Punctual present xiii 12, 111, 121

• Qualia 18, 43, 48, 174, 198, 224, 228

• Rainbow 71, 72, 98

• Realism xi, xiii, 5, 20, 118, 119, 141, 142, 171, 179, 197, 198, 215

• Reichenbach, Arthur 100, 134

• Relationalism xi 60, 82

• Relative existence 60, 67, 79–82, 118, 180, 181, 228, 229

• Relative object 4, 5

• Relative velocity 54, 60, 64, 72, 81, 89, 181, 182, 184, 206, 207

• Relativity, theory of 10, 46, 80, 110, 115

• Remembered present 17

• Representations 10, 16, 17, 18

• Representationalism 36, 46, 211, 213

• Revonsuo, Atti 132

• Risky prediction 10

• Russel, Bertrand 2, 8, 18, 25, 175, 217, 218, 219, 228

• Russell Monism 2, 217, 221

• Sacks, Oliver 160, 161

• Saturn 33

• Scheiner, Christoph 14

• Searle, John 1, 15

• Secretion 3

• Semantics 28, 41, 46, 47, 194, 202, 207, 208, 224

• Sense data 18

• Senses violence 9

• Sensor modality 124, 125, 154, 159

• Sensory deprivation 157

• separation 19, 42–44

• Shoemaker, Sidney 7, 8, 18, 58, 194

• Silver screen 17, 88, 209

• Simultaneity 109, 111, 115

• Sinatra, Frank 32

• Sirius 85

• Skin 22, 23, 33, 56, 84, 85, 112, 135, 182

• Skinner, Burrhus 15

• Skrbina, David 199, 224

• Smart, J. J. 1, 45, 47, 175

• Smeagol 59

• Smith, D. H. 197, 215

• Social recognition 26

• Soul 22, 23, 24, 173, 220–221

• Sound wave 88, 115

• Spatiotemporal manifold 102

• Spatiotemporal object 92–94

• Specific Energies 21, 125, 174

• Specious present 164

• Spleen 1

• Spread Environment 105, 138

• Spread present 64, 71, 82, 106, 110–119

• Star 53, 63, 85, 94, 114, 119, 121, 134, 135, 194

• Strauss, Richard 92

• Strawson, Galen ix 11, 13, 26, 39, 45, 196, 219

• Subjective experience, downgrade 9

• Sun 2, 40, 51–3, 57, 60, 62, 63, 84, 97, 107, 111, 113, 134, 135, 161, 162, 181, 194, 195

• Superman 46

• Supersaturated red 38, 130, 131, 169–172

• Supervenience 33, 34, 42, 45, 48, 50, 56, 97, 143–4, 151, 191, 199, 219

• Survival 26

• Synchronous environment 105, 106, 138, 139

• Synesthesia 38

• Tactile object 125

• Tactile pictures 156

• TEDTalk 17, 56

• Tegmark, Mark 3, 19, 21

• Temperature 46, 74, 180, 182, 183, 184, 185

• The Beatles 92

• The Brain-World Problem 23

• The digestive model of the mind 13, 14, 15

• The Hard Problem 38, 198–200, 229

• The mereological fallacy 35

• The Red Queen 207

• The standard view 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 43, 135, 141, 201, 204, 206, 217

• The transparency of perception/experience 40

• Thompson, Evan 35

• Thought 3, 24, 25, 28, 35, 53, 57, 107, 117, 156, 160, 178, 186, 188, 193, 223

• Time Bomb 107, 108

• Time-gap problem 119

• Time-lag argument 104, 118, 119, 135, 138

• Tolkien, John Ronald Reoul 59

• Tononi, Giulio 21, 132, 224

• Uexküll, Jakob von 99

• Umwelt 99

• Uranus 69

• Ursa Major 75, 78, 94, 101, 107, 111, 112

• Uttal, William 21

• Valberg, J. J. 118

• Van Invagen, Peter 78

• Vehicles of representation 41–42, 133, 191, 202, 228

• Vesalius, Andrea 14, 20, 27

• Virtual reality 17

• Vision 15

• Visual cortex 89, 143, 199

• Visual object 99, 125

• Visual Perception 15

• Visual Pyramid 14, 205

• Visual system 93, 143, 145, 147, 162, 164, 165, 166

• Western science 9

• Wheeler, John 116, 117

• Whitehead, Alfred North 13, 32, 33, 70, 77, 111, 112

• Wikipedia 166

• Wilder, Gene 34

• World-makers 99, 100, 102

• Zeki, Semir 1, 7, 21, 34, 48, 93, 35

• Zeno 43

• Zeno’s paradox 43