CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

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DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

PART I: GETTING READY FOR MODERN THOUGHT

1. History’s Rigid, Rocky, and Goofy Way of Thinking About Consciousness

2. The Dawn of Empirical Thinking in Philosophy

3. Twentieth-Century Strides and Openings to Modern Thought

PART II: THE PHYSICAL SYSTEM

4. Making Brains One Module at a Time

5. The Beginnings of Understanding Brain Architecture

6. Gramps Is Demented but Conscious

PART III: CONSCIOUSNESS COMES

7. The Concept of Complementarity: The Gift from Physics

8. Non-Living to Living and Neurons to Mind

9. Bubbling Brooks and Personal Consciousness

10. Consciousness Is an Instinct

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

ALSO BY MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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