Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I.Marko Uršič: Mind and Cosmology, Searching for a “Third Way”
1. “Fine tuning” and the Anthropic Cosmological Principle
2. Multiverse(s)
3. Paradoxes of transfinite cosmology
4. “Intelligent Design” vs. cosmological Darwinism
5. New ways of solving the “Goldilocks Enigma”
6. Emergence and emanation
7. Pantheism as the “third way” of philosophical cosmology
II. Olga Markič: Mind in cognitive science: from computational models to the embodied situated cognition
1. The mechanical picture
2. Cognition as computation
3. Mental processes as neural processes
4. Unresolved issues: mental causation problem and consciousness
5. Embodied, situated cognition: brain, body and world
III. Andrej Ule: Mind in Physical Reality, its Potentiality and Actuality
1. Processual aspects of consciousness
2. Potentiality in nature
3. Nonprocessual aspects of consciousness
4. The experiential perspective and the perspectivity dimension of reality
5. Does quantum mechanics provide a model of experiential consciousness?
Bibliography
Index
