Contents

Prologue: Literary Depth, Mental Shallows

PART ONE
The Illusion of Mental Depth

1 The Power of Invention

2 The Feeling of Reality

3 Anatomy of a Hoax

4 The Inconstant Imagination

5 Inventing Feelings

6 Manufacturing Choice

PART TWO
The Improvised Mind

7 The Cycle of Thought

8 The Narrow Channel of Consciousness

9 The Myth of Unconscious Thought

10 The Boundary of Consciousness

11 Precedents not Principles

12 The Secret of Intelligence

Epilogue: Reinventing Ourselves

Notes

Index