The Society of Mind

1. Prologue

• The Agents of the Mind
• The Mind and the Brain
• The Society of Mind
• The World of Blocks
• Common Sense
• Agents and Agencies

2. Wholes and Parts

• Components and Connections
• Novelists and Reductionists
• Parts and Wholes
• Holes and Parts
• Easy Things are Hard
• Are People Machines?

3. Conflict and Compromise

• Conflict
• Noncompromise
• Hierarchies
• Heterarchies
• Destructiveness
• Pain and Pleasure Simplified

4. The Self

• The Self
• One Self or Many?
• The Soul
• The Conservative Self
• Exploitation
• Self-Control
• Long-Range Plans
• Ideals

5. Individuality

• Circular Causality
• Unanswerable Questions
• The Remote-Control Self
• Personal Identity
• Fashion and Style
• Traits
• Permanent Identity

6. Insight and Introspection

• Consciousness
• Signals and Signs
• Thought Experiments
• B-Brains
• Frozen Reflection
• Momentary Mental Time
• The Causal Now
• Thinking Without Thinking
• Heads in the Clouds
• Worlds Out of Mind
• In-Sight
• Internal Communication
• Self-Knowledge is Dangerous
• Confusion

7. Problems and Goals

• Intelligence
• Uncommon Sense
• The Puzzle Principle
• Problem Solving
• Learning and Memory
• Reinforcement and Reward
• Local Responsibility
• Difference-Engines
• Intentions
• Genius