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Second Nature:
the Man-made World of Idealism, Technology and Power
About the Author
From the Back Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
CIP Data
What Others Are Saying
Short Essays
Glossary
The Rise and Fall of Reality
Abstract
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Part One: MIND AND MATTER
The Real
The Situation of Embodiment
The Subjective Frame
Some Mind-Body Problems
The Ghost in the Machine
Skepticism, or the Problem of Knowledge
Other Minds, Other Bodies
The Reality Principle
Self-Reference and Subjectivity
Paradox and the Subjective Frame
The Ground of Experience
Part Two: INTENTION AND EXTENSION
Causality
Intentionality
The "Mathematical" Meaning of Meaning
What it is Like to Be an Intentional System
The Problem of Cognitive Domains
Coloring it Real
De-realizing the World
The Evolution of Conciousness
Part Three: CONTENT AND FORM
Analog and Digital
The Propositional Nature of Thought
Simulation and Replication
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and Nanotechnology
Extraterrestrial Life
Part Four: SUBJECT AND OBJECT
A Concious Relationship to Experience
The Subject is No Object
The Concept of Spiritual Freedom
Play
Formalism
Games
Time and Space
Cycles and The Shadow of Thought
Objectivity
Identity and the Absolute
Ego
Emptiness
Appendix to Section 17
Footnotes
About the Author
About Dan Bruiger
Sculpture
About the Artist
Gallery
In the Beginning
Know Thy Self
That Thou Art
The Announcement
The Dancing Goddess
Promises to Keep
Dancing Goddess II
Spring
Autumn
Summer
Be Still and Know That I Am
Study for "Winter"
Heroic Man
A Collection of Poems by Dan Bruiger
Short Essays by Dan Bruiger
Alienation of the Body
Androgeny and the Feminine Vision
Artificial Economy
Ascensionism
Battle of the Sexes
Biological Entrapment
Burden of Self-Consciousness
Carnal Knowledge
Categorical Imperative
Centralized Hierarchy
Claustrophobia as the Human Condition
Consumer Power
Consumer Welfarism
Continuity of Science and Religion
Control of Technology
Dark Side of Woman
Darwinist Tautology
Denial of Death
Dialectical Cycle
Dilemma of World Unity
Disenchanting the World
Domination of Nature
Dreams of Ultimate Freedom
Dualism
Dualism Writ Large
Eclipse of the Feminine
Embodiment
Emptiness of Modernity
Ethics and Ingrouping
Expendable Consumers
Futurist Pinocchio
Gender Wars
Genderless Sexuality
Genetic Versus Somatic Interest
Genuine Individualism
Global Monoculture
Globalist Rhetoric
Good Samaritan
Heroic and Ironic
Human Empire
Human Footprint
Humanist Debacle
I Am No Thing
Ideal of Objectivity
Idealism Subverted
Ideality
Ideology of Progress
If Women Ruled the World
Individualism Reconsidered
Inspiration by Example
Intensional Lover
Is Nature Unnatural?
Limits of Simulation
Limits to Progress
Male Insecurity
Masculine God
Masculine Mystery
Man-Made World
Mechanized Economics
Mind-Body Problem
Monologue With Nature
Morality Versus Ethics
Nature and Mechanism
Nature of Power
Neutered Libido
No Man Is an Island
Obscene Wealth
On Being Dead
On Consumer Greed
On Gadgets
On the Representational Theory of Perception
Only Artifacts Are Deterministic
Over (Re)Production
Personhood
Pharmaceuticals Contraindicated
Plurality of Worlds
Posthuman Allegory
Price of Progress
Problem of Political Will
Quarantine of the Feminine
Quest to Play God
Questionable Manhood
Romance of Tristan and Isolde
Revenge Against Nature
Sacred Nature
Safe Sex
Self-Censorship
Sexual Collusion
Sexual Materialism
Science as Modern Myth
Secret Human Project
Self-Conscious Animal
Shadow Work
Shevolution
Technology and the Shrinking Middle Class
Thought Ergo Thinker
Threat Behind Terrorism
Triumph of Capitalism
Ultimate Geneology
Unisex Society
View From Nowhere
Virtual Heaven
Western Hypocrisy
What is it like to be a Self?
Widening Poverty Gap
Woman as Status Symbol
World Machine
Zero Sum Game