Making up the Mind - From the contents

Prologue: Real scientists don’t study the mind
The psychologist’s fear of the party

Part I Seeing through the brain’s illusions

1 Clues from a damaged brain
When the brain tells lies
How do we know what’s real?

2 What a normal brain tells us about the world
Illusions of awareness
Our creative brain

3 What the brain tells us about our bodies
Privileged access?
My brain can act perfectly well without me

Part II How the brain does it

4 Getting ahead by prediction
The feeling of being in control
The invisible actor at the centre of the world

5 Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality
Is there a rhinoceros in the room?
Imagination is extremely boring

6 How brains model minds
Humans and robots
Illusions of agency

Part III Culture and the brain

7 Sharing minds – How the brain creates culture
People are contagious
Closing the loop

Epilogue: Me and my brain
Even an illusion has responsibilities

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