This is an abridged version of the first part of my larger work "Mind Out of Matter". It deals with the intersection between Information Theory and neurophysiology, focussing on recent developments in the theory of perception and the philosophical issues of ontology and epistemology that these raise. I then go on to discuss developments in affective neuroscience and the central role that emotions, understood in a physiological sense, have to play in reasoning and decision making.

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Sampling Reality by R. J. (Dick) Pountain is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.