Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental WorldISBN: 978-1-4051-3694-5
Hardcover
248 pages
May 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Prologue: Real scientists don’t study the mind.
Part I: Seeing through the brain’s illusions:.
1. Clues from a damaged brain.
2. What a normal brain tells us about the world.
3. What the brain tells us about our bodies.
Part II: How the brain does it:.
4. Getting ahead by prediction.
5. Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality.
6. How brains model minds.
Part III: Culture and the brain:.
7. Sharing minds – How the brain creates culture.
Epilogue: Me and my Brain.
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