My Big TOE Discovery

Abbreviated Table of contents

Abbreviated TOC

Synopsis of Book 1 ......................................................41

SECTION 3

Man in the Loop

How You Fit into the Big Picture - Ego, Body,

Mind, and Purpose ........................................................................43

1 Introduction to Section 3 ....................................................45

2 Jeez Louise, Will That Fat Rat Ever

Find the Cheese? .....................................55

3 Cheer Up: Things Are Not as Bleak as You Might

Think. Say "Cheese Please," and Hold That Smile! .65

4 Does the Big Dude Have an Attitude? Do We?

Speculate! Speculate! Dance to the Music! ..............71

5 Why Us? Why Like This? - What is a Nice Being

Like You Doing in a Place Like This? .......................77

6 A Chip Off the Old Block ...................................................81

It is the Thought That Counts ......................................81

Why Can't We Get Our Story Straight? .........................85

Other Dimensions ...........................................................88

Take Me to Your Leader .................................................90

My God Is Bigger Than Your God (Sung to the

Tune of Nana, Nana, Boo, Boo) ...........................91

7 The Nature of Consciousness, Computers, and Us ..........95

8 Does the Big Dude Have Feelings or a Personality?

What Does Love Have to Do With Consciousness? 113

(The Nature Of Ego - an Aside) ........113

9 Life and Love in the Petri Dish

Great Science, Good Plan - Now Get to Work .......129

10 What is the Point? ..................................................149

11 Mind, Brain, and Body ...............................................159

(Free will, Consciousness, and

Psi Effects - an Aside) ..........................................162

12 The Chairman of the Board, and Our Probable

Relative Importance .................................................185

13 Uncertainty and Manipulating the Future With Intent

The Nature of Psi Phenomena - Measurement

and Validation

Taking the Path of Knowledge ................................189

14 A Closer Look at Psi Phenomena, NPMR, and You ........215

15 Section 3 Postlude

Hail! Hearty Readers, Thou Art a Stout

(Figuratively Only) and Sturdy Bunch ....................231

SECTION 4

Solving the Mystery

Mind, Matter, Energy, and Experience...................................................235

16 Introduction to Section 4 ..................................................237

17 An Operational Model of Consciousness -

Computers, Simulations, Artificial Intelligence, and Us 241

18 An Operational Model of Consciousness -

How Your Kid's Computer Game Works .................243

19 An Operational Model of Consciousness -

Will the Real AI Guy Please Stand Up! ...................247

20 An Operational Model of Consciousness -

Some of My Best Friends are AI Guys, But

I Wouldn't Want My Sister to Marry One. ..............251

21 An Operational Model of Consciousness -

Silicon and Carbon, Sand and Charcoal - It

Depends on What You Want to Do With It. ...........267

22 A Functional Model of Consciousness -

Rule-Sets, Constraints, and Us

Wherein, AUM, With Nowhere to Go,

Puddles on the Floor of Consciousness ..................271

23 A Functional Model of Consciousness -

After AUM Puddles, Evolution Cleans Up the Mess 281

24 A Functional Model of Consciousness -

Puddle Evolution Starts a Revolution (Hey Jake,

Your Great9000 Grandmother Was a Retarded Puddle) ........291

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