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1) THE MEDITATION CLASS
Introspection
The stream of consciousness
The meditation session
2) THE CONSCIOUS MIND AND THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND
"Access" and the conscious mind
Thinking, fast and slow
3) THE BRAIN AS A COMPUTER
Serial processing
The parallel processing of the unconscious mind
The structure of the mind
4) THE FAME OF PHINEAS GAGE
The boss of the brain
5) THE EMERGENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Space, time, and consciousness
6) THE LOGIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The start of our journey
Classical Greece
The logic of Aristotle
The vanishing middle term
The Victorian era
The laws of thought
The wild-bearded poet
The unhappy childhood of Walter Pitts
The McCulloch-Pitts artificial neuron
Thermodynamics and the brain
Maxwell's Demon revisited
The solution of Leo Szilard
The man from IBM
The incredible power of Landauer's principle
Landauer's principle and the brain
If it's cold, it's not conscious
The end of the saga
7) IMPLICATIONS OF THE RULE
The primary visual cortex revisited
Is a wire conscious?
Food rearranged
The frozen head of Walt Disney
A conversation with Einstein's brain
Conclusion
APPENDIX
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