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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Invisible Palaces
Prelude: The Tower in the Jungle
Part One - Mucking Around in the Wetware
A Dark Continent
Looking for Engrams
The Brain’s Volume Controls
Early Obsessions
Growing New Wires
Strengthening Connections
An Exotic Phenomenon
The Porcupine Effect
Sharing a Hallucination
Artificial Amnesia
A Hostile Replication
The King of the Hill
Off-the-shelf Enzymes
Religious Feuds
“A Beautiful Little Switch”
Hebb’s Return
Intuition and Ambiguity
First Interlude: A Brain in a Box
Part Two - The Memory Machine
Theorizing About Theorizing
Atomic Choreography
The Structures of Experience
Magnets and Brain Cells
Universal Machines
Toward a Mushier Computer
The Exorcists
Systems of Symbols
A Model of Memory
Animal Logic
Resonance and Reality
Something Deeply Hidden
Knowledge Engineering
Another Change in Fashion
The Man in the Pineapple Shirt
The Price of an Idea
Second Interlude: “God Is a Tinkerer”
Part Three - The End of Philosophy
Spooky Stuff
Philosophy’s Hinterlands
Celestial Navigation
Rocky Waters
What a Number Is
Final Reflections
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
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