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Volume 4, Number 1
15 November 2008

Target on Conscious Self

Cover Art: Ataxophobia-4 © Han Hoogebrugge 2008, e-print on dibond, 120 x 140 cm, courtesy Base Alpha Gallery, Antwerpen.

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Table of Contents

How and Why the Brain Lays the Foundations for a Conscious Self

Martin V. Butz

Why and How to Avoid Representation

Marco C. Bettoni

Treacherous Terms

Ernst von Glasersfeld

The Mind Is Not In the Brain

John Stewart

Anticipation and Self-consciousness. Are these Functions of the Brain?

Humberto R. Maturana

Two Basic Agreements and Two Doubts

Giovanni Pezzulo & Cristiano Castelfranchi

Cause and Effect: The Anticipatory Drive and the Principle of Least Time

Samarth Swarup

The Role of Sensations in the Anticipating Self

Mathias Osvath

Maladaptive Anticipations

Martina Rieger

Predicting Events Without Miracle Neurons: Towards a Sober Consideration of Brain Data

Ricarda I. Schubotz

A Computational Linguistics Perspective on the Anticipatory Drive

Günter Neumann

Objectifying the Subjective Self: An Account From a Synthetic Robotics Approach

Jun Tani

Anticipation of Motor Acts: Good for Sportsmen, Bad for Thinkers

John G. Taylor

The Issue of Reductionism. A Radical Constructivist Approach to the Philosophy of Physics

Andreas Quale

Methodologizing Radical Constructivism. Recipes for RC-Designs in the Social Sciences

Karl H. Müller

Computing a Reality. Heinz von Foerster’s Lecture at the A.U.M Conference in 1973. Edited by Albert Müller

Heinz von Foerster & Albert Müller

How Questioning Reality Can Help Face Real Problems. Book review of: Jonathan D. Raskin & Sara K. Bridges (eds.) (2008) Studies in Meaning 3: Constructivist Psychotherapy in the Real World/ Pace University Press, New York

Gabriele Chiari