| Preface | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Introduction | |
| A forbearing machine | p. 1 |
| Intelligence and consciousness--a first look | p. 5 |
| The ultimate black box | |
| The apparent independence of life behind the eyes | p. 12 |
| The suspicious accuracy of the imagination | p. 17 |
| Elements of black boxology | p. 21 |
| Under the lid | |
| A long-standing curiosity | p. 30 |
| Structures and strategies | p. 37 |
| Maps and missions | p. 46 |
| The view from without | p. 50 |
| The logic of emotion | p. 55 |
| Hierarchies and lowerarchies | p. 58 |
| Games neurons play | |
| The workhorses of the nervous system | p. 60 |
| Origins of agitation | p. 63 |
| Influential connections | p. 66 |
| Variations on the theme | p. 70 |
| Neuronal dictatorship | p. 73 |
| Spreading the responsibility | p. 75 |
| Pieces of neural circuitry | p. 78 |
| The complexity of reality | p. 85 |
| Lasting impressions | |
| Indoctrinating organisms | p. 88 |
| Freezing the moment | p. 96 |
| In the longer term | p. 99 |
| Keeping things tidy | p. 102 |
| Caught in the net | p. 104 |
| From temporary to permanent | p. 114 |
| At the blackboard | p. 120 |
| Getting organized | p. 124 |
| From percept to concept | |
| Computers and brains | p. 130 |
| The perceptron | p. 134 |
| A surprising headache | p. 137 |
| Concealed wisdom | p. 140 |
| Progress through regress--back propagation | p. 141 |
| Hidden layerology | p. 151 |
| Percept and concept | p. 157 |
| Reader in English | p. 162 |
| A sheep in wolf's clothing | p. 165 |
| Roots and routes | p. 171 |
| The grand design | |
| The burden of mandatory change | p. 183 |
| Window on the mind | p. 186 |
| To each his own? | p. 198 |
| Fine tuning | p. 211 |
| Subtler control | p. 218 |
| The power of feeling | p. 221 |
| Vergence and reciprocity | p. 227 |
| Global closure | p. 234 |
| The first half second | |
| Mechanics of the mind | p. 239 |
| Ripples in the cortex | p. 251 |
| Early warning system | p. 256 |
| Paying attention | p. 263 |
| A relevant limitation in colour vision | p. 281 |
| Bandwidth, breakthrough and working memory | p. 282 |
| Dissection of sequence | p. 286 |
| Midwives of reflection | |
| An inadequacy of colloquialisms | p. 295 |
| Further probes of the unconscious | p. 298 |
| The philosophical nub | p. 300 |
| The reality of filling in | p. 303 |
| The gullibility of senses | p. 311 |
| Phantom sensations | p. 313 |
| Deferment of automation | p. 315 |
| A consciousness agenda | p. 319 |
| Trains of thought | p. 322 |
| Unfinished business | p. 324 |
| The theatre that never closed | p. 328 |
| Black boxology revisited | p. 334 |
| Active acquisition of information | p. 344 |
| The core circuitry of consciousness | p. 347 |
| Schemata | p. 351 |
| Why do I feel that I am in my head? | p. 354 |
| Attention and binocular rivalry | p. 364 |
| Qualia--the feelings of consciousness | p. 368 |
| The content of consciousness | p. 372 |
| Bottom-up meets top-down? | p. 374 |
| The apparent freedom of volition | p. 377 |
| In a night's sleep | p. 378 |
| The depth of reason | |
| Language, introspection and Helen Keller | p. 384 |
| A recapitulation | p. 388 |
| The kinematics of language | p. 390 |
| Why is language cortically lateralized? | p. 396 |
| An invisible shell | p. 398 |
| Holes in the mind | p. 400 |
| Roots of intelligence and creativity | p. 405 |
| Emotional intelligence? | p. 409 |
| The scope of the simian mind | p. 414 |
| Deep Blue and Deep Thought | p. 417 |
| The message and the medium | |
| Of all possible worlds | p. 421 |
| John Searle's Chinese Room | p. 425 |
| The brain--the overall picture | p. 427 |
| Consciousness will be seen in computers | p. 434 |
| Notes and bibliography | p. 437 |
| Glossary | p. 468 |
| Author index | p. 486 |
| Subject index | p. 500 |
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