Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Overview: From Aristotle to the Bits of an Informational Mind -- All Things Informational -- What is Information? -- Shannon and Crackly Telephone Lines and Minds -- (Chapter 2. Shannon:The Reluctant Hero of the Information Age) -- Why Billions of Cells? -- (Chapter 3. Billions of Brain Cells: Guesses and Models) -- The Circles of the Mind -- (Chapter 4. Imagination in the Circles of a Network) -- Phenomenal States -- (Chapter 5. Phenomenal Information:TheWorld and Neural States) -- Information Integration -- (Chapter 6. Information Integration:The Key to Consciousness?) -- The Joy of Seeing -- (Chapter 7. The Joy of Seeing: Gathering Visual Information) -- Some Don't Like This -- (Chapter 8:The Informational Mind: Oxymoron or New Science?) -- The Dark Submerged Layers of the Mind -- (Chapter 9. The Unconscious Mind: Freud's Influential Vision) -- And Now For Aristotle -- (Chapter 10. Aristotle's Living Soul) -- Chapter 2. Shannon: The Reluctant Hero of the Information Age -- Brief prologue:The exemplary engineer -- From Michigan to juggling machines -- A quiet corner of Gaylord, Michigan -- Impact at MIT -- Dr Shannon - Mathematician? -- The Bell Telephone Laboratories -- The need for an information theory -- Fun and games -- The years that followed: life-like machines -- Returning to academia and bowing out -- Communication according to Shannon -- The Bit -- What is entropy and why does it matter in communications? -- Communication at a distance -- How much information can a channel transmit? -- Channel capacity and the digital age? -- Shannon and the internet -- Shannon and the informational mind -- Chapter 3. Billions of Brain Cells: Guesses and Models -- Not neural networks 101 -- Where is the mind? -- The fine grain of the brain -- Cajal (1852-1934) -- The electrochemical neuron.

A Logical Calculus of nervous activity -- Warren McCulloch -- Walter Pitts (1923-1969) -- The logical calculus -- The Consequences -- Learning and adaptation -- Bernard Widrow -- Frank Rosenblatt (1928-1971) and his detractors -- Closed paths and other escapes from objections -- Spiking neurons -- Weightless neurons -- Example -- Looking back in this chapter: Mind and the science of the day -- Chapter 4. Imagination in the Circles of a Network -- Neural thought: A target for this Chapter - State Structures, Not 'Cat' or 'Dog' Cells -- Lashley, the Iconoclast of ancient connectionism -- Donald Hebb: Nailing mind to brain -- Neural (Hebbian) learning -- Cell assemblies -- The state of play after Hebb -- Automata studies -- Finite automata -- More automata studies:The beginnings of major controversies -- Neural automata theory simplified -- Lessons from Moore's work -- Finding inner states -- Meanwhile . . . outside the US: Eduardo Caianiello -- Meanwhile . . . Outside the US:Teuvo Kohonen -- Back in the US . . . Stephen Grossberg -- So how do neurons think? -- Chapter 5. Phenomenal Information: The World and Neural States -- The Inner Eye -- Phenomenology -- Franz Clemens Horatio Hermann Brentano (1838-1917) -- Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859-1938) -- Other Phenomenologists -- Phenomenology and the Mental-Automaton Designer -- Iconic Learning -- Iconic Learning:The Beginnings Visual Experience in a Simple Network -- A Note on Where the Mental Images Might Be -- Experiments with Iconic Learning -- Experiment 1: Memory and neuron size -- Some analysis -- State Structures -- Zones of State Space -- Probabilistic State Structures -- The usefulness of noise -- The Phenomenal Mental State: A Building Brick for Consciousness? -- Chapter 6. Information Integration: The Key to Consciousness? -- Something brewing? -- Some intuitions -- Giulio Tononi.

Information integration theories2 (Contributed by Mike Beaton) -- The photodiode and the camera -- Measures of Φ -- Φ Measure 1 (Call it Φ1)7 -- Φ Measure 2 (Call it Φ2) -- Difficulty in assessments of Φ and how 'liveliness' might improve things -- Liveliness: some history -- Relevance to information integration -- Commentary -- Qualia and information integration -- From capacity to qualia -- Tononi's example of a quale -- Criticism of this approach to qualia -- Appendix. A simplification of vectors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 7. The Joy of Seeing: Gathering Visual Information -- The divisive brain -- Division of labor in the visual cortex -- The eyes and their probing retina -- Between eye and V1 -- Stepping aside -- V1 -The striate primary visual cortex -- The extrastriate visual cortex -- Discovering integration in the visual cortex -- A Depictive theory -- The Crick and Koch stimulus -- A necessary world referent -- An experiment in artificial visual awareness -- Experiment 1: iconic memory -- Experiment 2: from memory to awareness -- The stream of experience -- Perceptual experience: Iconic movement and time -- Sj = (vjmjtj) -- Memory: How the state structure becomes useful -- From the Foveal patch to a visual mind -- The informational mind hypothesis -- Informational mind hypothesis (IMH) -- Chapter 8. The Informational Mind: Oxymoron or New Science? -- Information: Cutting down on the confusion -- Raymond Tallis (1946-) -- Susan Greenfield (1950-) -- Luciano Floridi (1964-) -- Theodore Roszak (1933-2011) -- The Informational Mind Fights Its Corner -- Chapter 9. The Unconscious Mind: Freud's Influential Vision -- A Few Definitions -- The subconscious -- The unconscious -- The pre-conscious -- Repression -- Psychoanalysis -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- Dreams and Free Association in Psychoanalysis -- The 'inner life' of an automaton.

Emotions and brain chemistry in the informational mind -- Repression: A Possible Mechanism? -- How can repressed states be detrimental? -- Psychoanalysis: A Possible Model? -- Transference -- Like mending a broken leg? -- Dream Analysis as a feature of Psychoanalysis -- Freud's use of dreams (see footnote 6) -- Some Hand-Waving Informational Theory -- Dreams and State Structure -- Back to repressed states and dreaming -- A Perspective on the Unconscious -- Chapter 10. Aristotle's Living Soul -- De Anima or 'On The Soul' -- Aristotle's Hylomorphism -- Properties of the soul -- The mind according to Aristotle -- Aristotle and the informational mind -- The science -- Boston -- Reverberations -- State structures -- Aristotelian form as integrated information -- Vision -- Detractors -- Emotion -- Finally: Aristotle and his laptop -- Appendix -- A World and the automaton -- The World -- The entity -- Learning method 1: Closed random walk -- Learning behavior -- The imaginative mode -- Learning to make attractors in the state structure -- Commentary -- Author Index -- Subject Index.