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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue: Real Scientists Don't Study the Mind | |
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| The Psychologist's Fear of the Party | |
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| Hard Science and Soft Science | |
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| Hard Science - Objective; Soft Science - Subjective | |
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| Can Big Science Save Soft Science? | |
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| Measuring Mental Activity | |
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| How Can the Mental Emerge from the Physical? | |
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| I Can Read Your Mind | |
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| How the Brain Creates the World | |
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| Seeing through the Brain's Illusions | |
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| Clues from a Damaged Brain | |
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| Sensing the Physical World | |
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| The Mind and the Brain | |
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| When the Brain Doesn't Know | |
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| When the Brain Knows, But Doesn't Tell | |
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| When the Brain Tells Lies | |
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| How Brain Activity Creates False Knowledge | |
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| How to Make Your Brain Lie to You | |
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| Checking the Reality of Our Experiences | |
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| How Do We Know What's Real? | |
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| What a Normal Brain Tells Us about the World | |
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| Illusions of Awareness | |
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| Our Secretive Brain | |
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| Our Distorting Brain | |
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| Our Creative Brain | |
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| What the Brain Tells Us about Our Bodies | |
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| Privileged Access? | |
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| Where's the Border? | |
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| We Don't Know What We Are Doing | |
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| Who's in Control? | |
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| My Brain Can Act Perfectly Well without Me | |
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| Phantoms in the Brain | |
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| There's Nothing Wrong with Me | |
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| Who's Doing It? | |
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| Where Is the "You"? | |
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| How the Brain Does It | |
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| Getting Ahead by Prediction | |
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| Patterns of Reward and Punishment | |
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| How the Brain Embeds Us in the World and Then Hides Us | |
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| The Feeling of Being in Control | |
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| When the System Fails | |
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| The Invisible Actor at the Center of the World | |
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| Our Perception of the World Is a Fantasy That Coincides with Reality | |
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| Our Brain Creates an Effortless Perception of the Physical World | |
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| The Information Revolution | |
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| What Can Clever Machines Really Do? | |
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| A Problem with Information Theory | |
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| The Reverend Thomas Bayes | |
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| The Ideal Bayesian Observer | |
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| How a Bayesian Brain Can Make Models of the World | |
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| Is There a Rhinoceros in the Room? | |
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| Where Does Prior Knowledge Come From? | |
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| How Action Tells Us about the World | |
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| My Perception Is Not of the World, But of My Brain's Model of the World | |
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| Color Is in the Brain, Not in the World | |
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| Perception Is a Fantasy That Coincides with Reality | |
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| We Are Not the Slaves of Our Senses | |
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| So How Do We Know What's Real? | |
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| Imagination Is Extremely Boring | |
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| How Brains Model Minds | |
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| Biological Motion: The Way Living Things Move | |
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| How Movements Can Reveal Intentions | |
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| Imitation | |
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| Imitation: Perceiving the Goals of Others | |
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| Humans and Robots | |
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| Empathy | |
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| The Experience of Agency | |
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| The Problem with Privileged Access | |
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| Illusions of Agency | |
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| Hallucinating Other Agents | |
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| Culture and the Brain | |
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| Sharing Minds - How the Brain Creates Culture | |
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| The Problem with Translation | |
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| Meanings and Goals | |
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| Solving the Inverse Problem | |
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| Prior Knowledge and Prejudice | |
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| What Will He Do Next? | |
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| Other People Are Contagious | |
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| Communication Is More Than Just Speaking | |
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| Teaching Is Not Just a Demonstration To Be Imitated | |
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| Closing the Loop | |
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| Fork Handles: The Two Ronnies Close the Loop (Eventually) | |
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| Fully Closing the Loop | |
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| Knowledge Can Be Shared | |
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| Knowledge Is Power | |
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| The Truth | |
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| Epilogue: Me and My Brain | |
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| Chris Frith and I | |
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| Searching for the Will in the Brain | |
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| Where Is the Top in Top-Down Control? | |
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| The Homunculus | |
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| This Book Is Not About Consciousness | |
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| Why Are People So Nice (as Long as They Are Treated Fairly)? | |
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| Even an Illusion Has Responsibilities | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Illustrations and Text Credits | |
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| Index | |