Chapter 1 Who Am I? Where Do I Come From? Where Am I Headed?

Chapter 2 Who Are You? Why Are You Here? Can I Help You Achieve Your Goals?

Chapter 3 Appendix from the Classroom: Toward a Useful Introduction to Communication

Chapter 4 On Questions of the Form “What Is X?”, and on the Seemingly Innocent Question “What Is Communication?” in Particular

Chapter 5 Emergence and Reduction

Chapter 6 The Fundamental Problem of the Study of Communication

Chapter 7 Is There Communication in the Reduced World?

Chapter 8 The Unbelievable Complexity of the Truly Simple

Chapter 9 Information in Context

Chapter 10 The Reductionist Point of View—Extensionalism

Chapter 11 A Note on the Intelligence of Computers

Chapter 12 Revisiting Context and Meaning: Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication

Chapter 13 On Errors, on Correcting Them, and Thus on Goals (with and Without Scare Quotes): Cybernetics and Reductionism

Chapter 14 Back to the Basic Problem of Communication: The Limitations of Cybernetics

Chapter 15 Toward a Philosophy of Communication

Chapter 16 The Simple Introduction to Communication: A Methodological Preface

Chapter 17 Example #1: The Classroom

Chapter 18 Example #2: Stigmergy and Autonomy in the Cyber Age