Writings By John Donovan

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Interview

• Interview on Nanotechnology by Pan Future

Editorials

• Editorial on Public Acceptance of Climate Science (submitted to the Register-Guard, 07-20-2009)
• Editorial for Darwin's 200th Birthday (published in the Register Guard, 02-08-2009)
• Religious Values (submitted to the Register Guard, 04-02-2009)
• Science and Belief editorial (written by the Register Guard editors with a response by myself in comment #15)

Essays

• Pay As You Go (Population Control)
• The Thermodynamics of Knowledge
• Dennett In A NutShell
• Science as Evolutionary Process (with excellent Dennett quotation on AI)
• Intuition vs. Expertise (anonymous)
• Mathematics as Information Selection (by "Faustus")
• Towards a Materististic Consciousness New!

Correspondence

• Determinism and Choice (discussion with Brian Peterson and response from Dennett)

Short Stories

• The Gem Mine, 1996
• Loss of Information, 2000

Chapter Summaries of D. Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" (from Philosophy Forum discussion and written by John Donovan and Brian Peterson- "Faustus")

• Introduction to Discussion
• Chapter 1 "Prelude: How are Hallucinations Possible?" by "Faustus"
  • Chapter 1 (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 2 "Explaining Consciousness" by "Faustus"
  • Chapter 2 (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 3 "A Visit To The Phenomenological Garden" by "Faustus"
  • Chapter 3 (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 4 "A Method for Phenomenology" by "Faustus"
  • Chapter 4 (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 5 "Multiple Drafts Versus The Cartesian Theater"
  • Chapter 5 (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 6 "Time and Experience" by "Faustus"
  • Chapter 6 (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 7 "The Evolution of Consciousness"
• Chapter 8 "How Words Do Things To Us" by Faustus
  • Chapter 8 "How Words Do Things To Us" (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 9 "The Architecture of the Human Mind"
• Chapter 10 "Show and Tell" by Faustus
  • Chapter 10 "Show and Tell" (revised) by Faustus New!
• Chapter 11 "Dismantling the Witness Protection Program"
• Chapter 12 "Disqualifying Qualia" by Faustus

Misc

• Treasure Hunt (for Jennifer's 8th birthday party)
• Epigrams (By John Donovan)
• NT in Japanese (not mine)
• Excellent student paper on Dennett (B. Newman)