CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
DECISIONS AND THE BRAIN
1. What Is a Decision?
2. The Tale of the Thermostat
3. The Definition of Value
4. Value, Euphoria, and the Do-It-Again Signal
5. Risk and Reward
THE DECISION-MAKING SYSTEM
6. Multiple Decision-Making Systems
7. Reflexes
8. Emotion and the Pavlovian Action-Selection System
9. Deliberation
10. The Habits of Our Lives
11. Integrating Information
12. The Stories We Tell
13. Motivation
14. The Tradeoff Between Exploration and Exploitation
15. Self-Control
THE BRAIN WITH A MIND OF ITS OWN
16. The Physical Mind
17. Imagination
18. Addiction
19. Gambling and Behavioral Addictions
20. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
21. Computational Psychiatry
THE HUMAN CONDITION
22. What Makes Us Human?
23. The Science of Morality
24. The Conundrum of Robotics
Epilogue
Appendices
A Information Processing in Neurons
B Gleaning Information from the Brain
C Content-Addressable Memory
Bibliography
Bibliographic Notes
Citations
Index