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| Preface | |
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| The Little Computer that Could: The Biological Brain | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Newly Transparent Brain | |
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| How the Brain Represents the World: General Features | |
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| How the Brain Represents the World: Fleeting Features | |
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| Brains versus TV Screens | |
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| Computation in the Brain: Pattern Transformation | |
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| The Cunning of Reason: Parallel Distributed Processing | |
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| Speed and Power | |
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| Functional Persistence | |
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| Toward More Lifelike Cognitive Capacities | |
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| Theory and Experiment: Historical Parallels | |
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| Reworking the Mirror of Our Self Conception | |
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| The Aim of This Book | |
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| Sensory Representation: The Incredible Power of Vector Coding | |
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| Taste Coding | |
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| Color Coding | |
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| Smell Coding | |
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| Face Coding | |
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| Vector Processing: How It Works and Why It Is Essential | |
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| Where and How Are Faces Coded? | |
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| Simple Pattern Recognition | |
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| Face Recognition | |
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| Network Learning: Repeated Synaptic Adjustment | |
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| Performance in the Trained Network | |
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| Internal Coding and Distributed Representations | |
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| The Emergence of Categories | |
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| Inductive Inference, Network Style | |
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| Artificial Neural Networks: Imitating Parts of the Brain | |
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| Entering the Third Dimension: Stereoscopic Vision | |
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| The Neuroanatomy of Stereoscopic Vision | |
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| How Stereoscopic Vision Works | |
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| Expanding One's Visual Grip on the World | |
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| Fusion.net: A Network with Stereo Vision | |
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| Submarine Intrigue: A Network for Sonar Perception | |
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| NETtalk: A Network that Reads Aloud | |
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| Vector Coding at the Output End: Sensorimotor Coordination | |
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| Recurrent Networks: The Conquest of Time | |
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| The Temporal Dimension of Behavior | |
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| Recognizing Causal Processes | |
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| Ambiguous Figures and Recurrent Modulation | |
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| Recognition, Theoretical Understanding, and Scientific Progress | |
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| The Neural Representation of the Social World | |
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| Social Space | |
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| EMPATH: A Network for Recognizing Human Emotions | |
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| Social Features and Prototypical Sequences | |
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| Are There "Social Areas" in the Brain? | |
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| The Human Capacity for Language | |
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| Recurrent Networks for Grammatical Discrimination | |
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| Moral Perception and Moral Understanding | |
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| The Brain in Trouble: Cognitive Dysfunction and Mental Illness | |
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| Diagnostic Techniques: The Literally Transparent Brain | |
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| CAT Scans | |
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| PET Scans | |
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| MRI Scans | |
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| Apraxia and Motor Dysfunction | |
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| Perceptual and Cognitive Dysfunction | |
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| Mood Disorders and Emotional Dysfunction | |
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| Social Dysfunction | |
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| Therapies: Talk versus Chemical and Surgical Intervention | |
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| Exploring the Consequences: Philosophical, Scientific, Social, and Personal | |
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| The Puzzle of Consciousness | |
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| Some Cautionary Parallels | |
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| Is Consciousness a Brain Process? Leibniz's View | |
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| The Elusive Contents of the First-Person Perspective: Nagel's Bat | |
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| Sensory Qualities Once More: Jackson's Neuroscientist | |
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| Mentality Without Reduction: Searle's Hybrid Position | |
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| The Contents and Character of Consciousness: Some First Steps | |
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| Reconstructing Consciousness in Neurocomputational Terms | |
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| Could an Electronic Machine Be Conscious? | |
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| The Turing Test and a Bit of Fun | |
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| The Defects of the Turing Test, and the Need for Real Theory | |
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| Building an Artificial Brain | |
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| Some Principled Objections to Machine Intelligence | |
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| Language, Science, Politics, and Art | |
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| Intelligence Differences: Between Individuals, and Between Species | |
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| Is Language Unique to Humans? | |
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| Dennett's Language-Centered Theory of Consciousness: A Critique | |
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| The Role of Language in Thought and Consciousness | |
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| Theoretical Science, Creativity, and Reaching Behind the Appearances | |
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| Cognitive Progress in the Moral and Political Domain | |
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| Neural Representation and the Many Forms of Art | |
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| Neurotechnology and Human Life | |
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| Medical Issues: Psychiatric and Neurological Medicine | |
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| Medical Issues: Neural Networks for Diagnosis and Treatment | |
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| Legal Issues: The Birth and Death of the Self | |
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| Legal Issues: Sociopathology and Corrective Policy | |
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| Turbocharged Science: Using Neural Networks for Research | |
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| The Impact on Our Self Conception | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |