Making Up the Mind by Frith, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: Real Scientists Don’t Study the Mind Part I - Seeing through the Brain’s Illusions Chapter 1 - Clues from a Damaged Brain

Sensing the Physical World The Mind and the Brain When the Brain Doesn’t Know When the Brain Knows, But Doesn’t Tell When the Brain Tells Lies How Brain Activity Creates False Knowledge How to Make Your Brain Lie to You Checking the Reality of Our Experiences How Do We Know What’s Real?

Chapter 2 - What a Normal Brain Tells Us about the World

Illusions of Awareness Our Secretive Brain Our Distorting Brain Our Creative Brain

Chapter 3 - What the Brain Tells Us about Our Bodies

Privileged Access? Where’s the Border? We Don’t Know What We Are Doing Who’s in Control? My Brain Can Act Perfectly Well without Me Phantoms in the Brain There’s Nothing Wrong with Me Who’s Doing It? Where Is the “You”?

Part II - How the Brain Does It Chapter 4 - Getting Ahead by Prediction

Patterns of Reward and Punishment How the Brain Embeds Us in the World and Then Hides Us The Feeling of Being in Control When the System Fails The Invisible Actor at the Center of the World

Chapter 5 - Our Perception of the World Is a Fantasy That Coincides with Reality

Our Brain Creates an Effortless Perception of the Physical World The Information Revolution What Can Clever Machines Really Do? A Problem with Information Theory The Reverend Thomas Bayes The Ideal Bayesian Observer How a Bayesian Brain Can Make Models of the World Is There a Rhinoceros in the Room? Where Does Prior Knowledge Come From? How Action Tells Us about the World My Perception Is Not of the World, But of My Brain’s Model of the World Color Is in the Brain, Not in the World Perception Is a Fantasy That Coincides with Reality We Are Not the Slaves of Our Senses So How Do We Know What’s Real? Imagination Is Extremely Boring

Chapter 6 - How Brains Model Minds

Biological Motion: The Way Living Things Move How Movements Can Reveal Intentions Imitation Imitation: Perceiving the Goals of Others Humans and Robots Empathy The Experience of Agency The Problem with Privileged Access Illusions of Agency Hallucinating Other Agents

Part III - Culture and the Brain Chapter 7 - Sharing Minds - How the Brain Creates Culture

The Problem with Translation Meanings and Goals Solving the Inverse Problem Prior Knowledge and Prejudice What Will He Do Next? Other People Are Contagious Communication Is More Than Just Speaking Teaching Is Not Just a Demonstration To Be Imitated Closing the Loop Fork Handles: The Two Ronnies Close the Loop (Eventually) Fully Closing the Loop Knowledge Can Be Shared Knowledge Is Power The Truth

Epilogue: Me and My Brain The Evidence Illustrations and Text Credits Index