CONTENTS

Preface – What does this book do?

Part I: The Human Algorithm

Scenario A: The wrong feeling

How does a human work? – A multi-disciplinary approach

The language of feeling and emotion

Scenario B: The feeling that wasn’t felt

The evolution of emotion

Scenario C: The feeling that wasn’t happening

Discovering the human algorithm by thought experiment

Scenario D: The feeling that was only imagined

Brain illusions

The human action driver

The myth of the ghost in a coma

The invention of emotion

Emotional white noise

Part II: Irrefutable Thoughts

The logic of believing

The history of a belief: It’s not about Marx!

The history of a belief: Trickle-up economics

Non-linear economics

Happitronomics

Ctrl-alt-delete

The politics of kitsch

Vote for the gesture

The logic of the imaginary friend

The engineering of humiliation

Worse than genocide

The self-referencing biological machine

Epilogue: science and philosophy reunite

Appendix I: The algorithm as a flow chart

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index