| Introduction
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| Acknowledgments | xv |
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| I | The Phenomenological Mind and the Computational Mind | 1 |
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| 1 | The Phenomenological Mind
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| | 1.1 | Varieties of Experience | |
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| | 1.2 | Positions on the Mind-Body Problem | |
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| | 1.3 | Externalization, Form, Qualia, and the Unconscious | |
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| 2 | The Computational Mind | 15 |
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| | 2.1 | The Computer Analogy | |
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| | 2.2 | Attractions of the Computational Mind; Theory I | |
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| | 2.3 | The Mind-Mind Problem | |
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| | 2.4 | Positions on the Mind-Mind Problem; Theory II | |
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| | 2.5 | Corollaries of Theory II | |
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| 3 | Preliminaries to Description of the Computational Mind | 29 |
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| | 3.1 | Justification of the Computational Mind | |
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| | 3.2 | Computational Theories and Computer Theories | |
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| 4 | Forms of Information | 37 |
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| | 4.1 | Structure and Process | |
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| | 4.2 | The Importance of Structure to Learning and Memory | |
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| | 4.3 | A Constraint on Syntactic Structure | |
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| | 4.4 | Lashley's Observation; Theory III | |
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| | 4.5 | Levels of Structure | |
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| | | Hypothesis Levels | |
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| | 4.6 | The Disunity of Awareness; Theory IV | |
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| II | The Language Faculty and What It Expresses | 55 |
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| 5 | Levels of Linguistic Structure | 57 |
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| | 5.1 | Phonological Structure | |
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| | 5.2 | The Psychological Reality of Formalism | |
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| | 5.3 | The Relation of Phonological Structure to Lower Levels | |
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| | 5.4 | Syntactic Structure | |
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| | 5.5 | Transformations and Processing | |
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| | 5.6 | Phonological Segmentation: Intonation and Stress | |
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| | 5.7 | Correspondence Rules and the Lexicon | |
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| | 5.8 | Summary | |
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| | 5.9 | Language Acquisition and Innateness | |
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| 6 | Language Processing | 91 |
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| | 6.1 | The Logical Structure of Language Perception and Production | |
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| | 6.2 | Holistic and Top-Down Influences in Language Understanding | |
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| | 6.3 | Lexical Access during Speech Perception | |
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| | 6.4 | The Time Course of Language Production | |
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| | 6.5 | Bidirectionality in the Language Processor | |
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| | 6.6 | Levels of Representation in Short-Term Linguistic Memory | |
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| | 6.7 | The Function of Short-Term Linguistic Memory | |
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| | 6.8 | The Selection Function of Short-Term Linguistic Memory | |
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| | 6.9 | Summary; Theory V-A | |
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| 7 | Boundary Conditions on Conceptual Structure | 121 |
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| | 7.1 | Meaning as a Component of the Computational Mind | |
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| | 7.2 | Connections to Other Faculties | |
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| | 7.3 | Approaches Ruled Out by the Mentalist Postulate | |
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| | 7.4 | Reference and Intentionality | |
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| | 7.5 | Truth | |
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| 8 | Some Elements of Conceptual Structure | 135 |
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| | 8.1 | Categorization | |
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| | 8.2 | The Noncategorical Nature of Categorization | |
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| | 8.3 | Preference Rule Systems | |
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| | 8.4 | Ontological Claims: Some Major Categories of Concepts | |
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| | 8.5 | Generalization of Spatial Concepts to Abstract Domains | |
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| | 8.6 | Final remarks | |
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| III | Nonlinguistic Faculties | 161 |
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| 9 | Levels of Visual Structure | 163 |
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| | 9.1 | The Problem of Vision | |
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| | 9.2 | The Form of Marr's Inquiry into Vision | |
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| | 9.3 | The Primal Sketch and 2½D Sketch | |
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| | 9.4 | The 3D Model | |
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| | 9.5 | Visual Imagery and the Imagery Debate | |
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| | 9.6 | Remarks on Visual Processing | |
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| 10 | The Connection between Language and Vision | 193 |
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| | 10.1 | Preliminary Correspondences | |
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| | 10.2 | The 3D Model as a Central Representation | |
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| | 10.3 | Visual Identification and Categorization | |
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| | 10.4 | The Use of 3D Models in Word Meanings | |
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| | 10.5 | Enriching the Conceptual-3D Connection | |
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| | 10.6 | Summary | |
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| | 10.7 | Special-Purpose Capacities That Draw on Vision | |
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| | | 10.7.1 | Face Recognition | |
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| | | 10.7.2 | Reading | |
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| | | 10.7.3 | Sign Language | |
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| 11 | Levels of Musical Structure | 213 |
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| | 11.1 | What Is Musical Cognition? | |
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| | 11.2 | Tonal Systems | |
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| | 11.3 | The Musical Surface | |
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| | 11.4 | Grouping and Metrical Structure | |
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| | 11.5 | Time-Span and Prolongational Reductions | |
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| | 11.6 | Musical Understanding versus Linguistic and Visual Understanding | |
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| | 11.7 | Musical Understanding and Musical Performance | |
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| | 11.8 | Musical Affect; Toward a Level of Body Representation | |
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| | 11.9 | Remarks on Musical Processing | |
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| 12 | The Modularity of the Computational Mind | 247 |
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| | 12.1 | Summary of the Levels | |
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| | 12.2 | Hierarchies and Headed Hierarchies | |
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| | 12.3 | Fundamental Computational Principles | |
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| | 12.4 | Larger-Scale Commonalities across Language and Music | |
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| | 12.5 | What Part of Music Is Specifically Musical? | |
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| | 12.6 | General Characteristics of the Processors | |
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| | 12.7 | Fodor's Modularity of Thesis | |
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| | 12.8 | A Finer-Grained View of Modularity | |
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| | 12.9 | Central Processes | |
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| | 12.10 | Acquisition of Modules: Innateness versus Learning | |
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| | 12.11 | Summary | |
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| | 12.12 | Perception and Cognition | |
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| IV | The Phenomenological Mind and the Computational Mind, continued | 273 |
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| 13 | Processing Precursors to Consciousness | 275 |
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| | 13.1 | Review of Theories I-III | |
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| | 13.2 | The Role of Modality-Specific Levels: Review of Theory IV | |
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| | 13.3 | Short-Term Memory and the Selection Function; Theory V | |
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| | 13.4 | The Role of Attention in Awareness; Theory VI | |
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| 14 | The Intermediate-Level Theory of Consciousness | 285 |
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| | 14.1 | Some Theories of the Form of Awareness | |
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| | 14.2 | The Form of Linguistic Awareness; Theory VII | |
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| | 14.3 | The Form of Musical Awareness | |
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| | 14.4 | The Form of Awareness in Visual Perception | |
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| | 14.5 | The Form of Awareness in Visual Imagery; Theory VII Generalized | |
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| | 14.6 | Remarks on "Sensation," Touch, Pain, Hunger, and the Self | |
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| | 14.7 | The Unity of Entities in Awareness | |
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| 15 | Amplifications of the Intermediate-Level Theory | 303 |
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| | 15.1 | The Affects; Theory VIII | |
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| | 15.2 | How is Introspection Possible? | |
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| 16 | Closing Thoughts | 319 |
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| | 16.1 | Inexpressible Thoughts and Knowledge | |
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| | 16.2 | How Does Language Aid Thought? | |
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| | 16.3 | Last Overview | |
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| Appendix A | 329 |
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| | | A Second Correspondence Rule between Intonation and Syntax | |
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| Appendix B | 331 |
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| | | Possible Enrichment of the 2½D Sketch | |
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| References | 339 |
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| Index
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