THE POSTMODERN BRAIN -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- PREFACE N -- CHAPTER ONE THE UNEXPURGATE D SELF-ORGANIZINGDREAM -- THE SELF-ORGANIZING DREAM -- 1. Self-organizing neural networks -- 2. A dream of three beetles -- 3. The self-organizing dream -- 4. To be a self-organizing brain -- CHAPTER TWO. DECONSTRUCTING THE CHINESE ROOM -- 1. The story of the Chinese Room -- 2. The semantic relation between syntax and world -- 3. The brain basis of semantics -- 4. Churchland and Churchland's connectionism -- 5. What neural nets do -- 6. From beings to being -- 7. Discussion -- APPENDIX ADENNETT, THE ILLUSIONIST -- APPENDIX B. NETWORK AND BACKGROUND IN SEARLE'S THEORY OF INTENTIONALITY -- CHAPTER THREE. THE CONTINENTAL TRADITION AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE -- I. Heidegger and Connectionism:Systems that can do what Dasein does -- 1. An ontico-ontological fact forgotten -- 2. Could a machine have the "right stuff?" -- 3. Traverse along the line of presence -- 4. Traverse along the line of the to be -- 5. Comment -- II. Derrida and Connectionism:Différance in neural nets -- 1. Background -- 2. Différance -- 3. The difference of Différance -- 4. The deferral of différance -- 5. Comment -- CHAPTER FOUR. TOWARD A NONCOMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVESCIENCE: THE SELF-TUNING BRAIN -- 1. Simplified neural nets -- 2. Biologically realistic nets -- 3. Noncomputation in biologically realistic nets -- 4. State space formulation -- 5. The noncomputational process of differing and deferring -- 6. The whole is the tuner -- 7. Review -- 8. Molecular "information'' -- 9. Cognitive "information" -- 10. The fractal geometry of state hyperspace -- 11. Evidence for fractal properties of the nervous system -- APPENDIXThe Binding Problem -- CHAPTER FIVE. PSYCHIATRY AND THE NEW DYNAMICS -- 1. The new dynamics of the brain.

2. Psychiatry and the new dynamics -- CHAPTER SIX. THE ERUPTION OF OTHER AND SELF -- I. A DECONSTRUCTION OF CLASSICAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY -- 1. Deconstruction of a psychotherapy text -- 2. Dissection: Techne -- 3. Further dissection: Psychodynamics -- 4. Exposure: The patient as autre -- II. DREAMING OF AUTRE -- APPENDIX INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTHERAPY -- CHAPTER SEVEN. POSTMODERNISM AND THE DREAM -- 1. Modernity -- 2. Postmodernism -- 3. The eruption -- 4. The dreamer and the dream -- 5. Dream rapture -- 6. "Reality" -- 7. Brain mechanisms -- 8. The world as irreality -- 9. Discussion -- APPENDIX REPORT BY REVIEWER #2 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. TAKE-OFF TO QUANTUM BRAIN DYNAMICS:THE EXCISION FROM DISCOURSE -- 1. An empirical critique of brain information processing -- 2. Quantum brain dynamics -- 3. Clark v. Fodor -- NOTES -- Preface N -- Chapter One: The Self-Organizing Dream -- Chapter Two: The Chinese Room -- Chapter Three: Continental Tradition and Cognitive Science -- Chapter Four: Noncomputational Cognitive Science -- Chapter Five: Nonlinear Dynamical Psychiatry -- Chapter Six: Eruption of Other and Self -- Chapter Seven: Postmodernism and the Dream -- Chapter Eight: The Excision From Discourse -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.