Author Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)

Title Brainchildren : essays on designing minds / Daniel C. Dennett.

Pub Info Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998] ©1998

Table of Contents
	Preface
1	Can Machines Think?					3
2	Speaking for Our Selves / Nicholas Humphrey, Daniel C. Dennett					31
3	Do-It-Yourself Understanding					59
4	Two Contrasts: Folk Craft versus Folk Science, and Belief versus Opinion					81
5	Real Patterns					95
6	Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology					121
7	Real Consciousness					131
8	Instead of Qualia					141
9	Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot					153
10	Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies: Commentary on Moody, Flanagan, and Polger					171
11	Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of AI					181
12	Producing Future by Telling Stories					207
13	Logical Geography of Computational Approaches: A View from the East Pole					215
14	Hofstadter's Quest: A Tale of Cognitive Pursuit					235
15	Foreword to Robert French, The Subtlety of Sameness					243
16	Cognitive Science as Reverse Engineering: Several Meanings of "Top-Down" and "Bottom-Up"					249
17	Artificial Life as Philosophy					261
18	When Philosophers Encounter Artificial Intelligence					265
19	Review of Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition					277
20	Out of the Armchair and into the Field					289
21	Cognitive Ethology: Hunting for Bargains or a Wild Goose Chase					307
22	Do Animals Have Beliefs?					323
23	Why Creative Intelligence Is Hard to Find: Commentary on Whiten and Byrne					333
24	Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why					337
25	Self-Portrait					355
26	Information, Technology, and the Virtues of Ignorance					367
	Bibliography					385
	Index					401