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| Prologue | |
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| Consciousness in Evolution | |
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| Demons and memes | |
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| Questions of definition | |
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| Building our own demons | |
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| How this book is organized | |
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| The Paradox of Consciousness | |
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| A limited instrument | |
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| Minimalist people | |
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| The ultimate form of deconstruction | |
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| The tunnel of consciousness | |
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| The paradox of paradoxes | |
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| Hardliners | |
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| Radical presumption | |
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| Even more radical presumption | |
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| Dennett's dangerous idea | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Governor of Mental Life | |
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| The time frame of awareness | |
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| Confusion over automaticity | |
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| The clinical view: Consciousness and self-governance | |
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| An aggressive, interventionist consciousness: A case history | |
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| Zasetsky's mirror twins | |
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| A literary view | |
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| Vertical depth and unity: The true reach of metacognition | |
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| Internalization and solipsistic awareness | |
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| Changing our model | |
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| The Consciousness Club | |
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| The materiality of mind | |
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| Eliminating the scale problem | |
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| Vestigial brains, not so vestigial minds | |
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| Avoiding the scala naturae | |
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| Defining the domain | |
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| The Consciousness Club | |
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| Bringing extra resources to bear | |
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| Embodiment, egocenters, and homunculi | |
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| The Executive Suite: Defining the primate "zone of proximal evolution" | |
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| Three Levels of Basic Awareness | |
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| The myth of the isolated mind | |
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| The great computational divide | |
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| The dawn of hybrid mind: Access to memory | |
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| Models of models and the tertiary regions | |
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| Chasing phantoms | |
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| Level-1 awareness: Selective binding | |
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| Level-2 awareness: Short-term control | |
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| Level-3 awareness: Intermediate- and long-term governance | |
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| Episodic awareness | |
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| Entertaining a radical possibility | |
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| Condillac's Statue | |
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| Minds in motion | |
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| Superplasticity | |
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| The Third Man: Deep enculturation | |
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| The much-misunderstood Statue and the birth of Constructivism | |
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| Mandler's dictum | |
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| The extraordinary mind of Helen Keller | |
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| Contact | |
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| Outside-Inside | |
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| The First Hybrid Minds on Earth | |
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| Abandoning solipsism | |
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| Consciousness and community of mind | |
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| The cultural relevance of a multifocal, multilayered consciousness | |
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| The stages of human cultural and cognitive evolution | |
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| The first transition: Establishing the mimetic framework of human culture | |
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| The germ of self-consciousness | |
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| Kinematic imagination | |
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| The second transition: The spiraling coevolution of thought and symbol | |
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| Piggybacking language on culture | |
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| Our cerebral boxing match with the cultural matrix | |
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| The management of idea-laundering schemes | |
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| Symbolic invention and the growth of the lexicon | |
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| The virtual realities of oral-mythic culture | |
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| Collectivity of mind | |
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| The Triumph of Consciousness | |
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| The third transition: The invention of symbolic technologies | |
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| A Mirror of Consciousness: The external memory field | |
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| A cerebral Trojan Horse | |
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| Multilayered cultures, multilayered domains of awareness | |
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| The essential unity of the conscious hierarchy | |
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| Coda | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |