MakinguptheMind_HowtheBrainCreatesOurMen.epub

Table of Contents Praise Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: Real Scientists Don’t Study the Mind Part I - Seeing through the Brain’s Illusions Chapter 1 - Clues from a Damaged Brain Sensing the Physical World The Mind and the Brain When the Brain Doesn’t Know When the Brain Knows, But Doesn’t Tell When the Brain Tells Lies How Brain Activity Creates False Knowledge How to Make Your Brain Lie to You Checking the Reality of Our Experiences How Do We Know What’s Real? Chapter 2 - What a Normal Brain Tells Us about the World Illusions of Awareness Our Secretive Brain Our Distorting Brain Our Creative Brain Chapter 3 - What the Brain Tells Us about Our Bodies Privileged Access? Where’s the Border? We Don’t Know What We Are Doing Who’s in Control? My Brain Can Act Perfectly Well without Me Phantoms in the Brain There’s Nothing Wrong with Me Who’s Doing It? Where Is the “You”? Part II - How the Brain Does It Chapter 4 - Getting Ahead by Prediction Patterns of Reward and Punishment How the Brain Embeds Us in the World and Then Hides Us The Feeling of Being in Control W......