Table of Boxes

Introduction

0.1 Blackmore
0.1 Troscianko

1. What’s the problem?

1.1 Descartes
1.2 James

1.1 The hard problem

1.1 Am I conscious now?

1.1 Defining consciousness

2. What is it like to be…?

2.1 Chalmers
2.2 Churchland

2.1 The philosopher’s zombie

2.1 What is it like to be me now?

2.1 Mary the colour scientist

3. The grand illusion

3.1 Ramachandran

3.1 Magic
3.2 Seeing or blind?
3.3 Predictive procesing

3.1 How much am I seeing now?

3.1 Filling-in

4. Neuroscience and the correlates of consciousness

4.1 Koch

4.1 Mapping the brain
4.2 Phantom phenomena

4.1 Where is this pain?

4.1 The rubber hand illusion

5. The theatre of the mind

5.1 Dennett
5.2 Baars

5.1 Seeing blue

5.1 Is my mind a theatre?

5.1 Cartesian materialism

6. The unity of consciousness

6.1 Seth
6.2 Tononi

6.1 Synaesthesia
6.2 Orwellian and Stalinesque revisions

6.1 Is this experience unified?

6.1 Are you a synaesthete?
6.2 Split brain twins
6.3 The cutaneous rabbit

7. Attention

7.1 Graziano

7.1 Did I direct my
attention or was it
grabbed?
7.2 Are you a
predictive processing
machine?

7.1 Meditation

8. Conscious and unconscious

8.1 Goodale
8.2 2 Clark

8.1 Sensory
substitution
8.2 Experimental
methods for measuring
consciousness

8.1 Did I do this consciously?
8.2  Was this decision conscious?

8.1 Incubation

9. Agency and free will

9.1 Wegner

9.1 Volition and timing

9.1 Am I doing this?

9.1 Getting up on a cold morning
9.2 Libet’s
voluntary act
9.3 The restaurant
game

10. Evolution and animal minds

10.1 Dawkins
10.2 Grandin

10.1 Consciousness before birth
10.2 Deception

10.1 What is it like to be that animal?

10.1 Lab choice

11. The function of consciousness

11.1 Humphrey

11.1 Four ways of thinking about the evolution of consciousness
11.2 Memes

11.1 Does this
Awareness have a
function?
11.2 Is this a
meme?

11.1 The sentience line

12. The evolution of machines

12.1 Turing
12.2 Holland

12.1 Brains and computers compared
12.2 Humanoid robots and simulations

12.1 Am I a machine?
12.2 Is this machine conscious?

12.1 A Turing test for creativity
12.2 The Seventh Sally or How Trurl’s
perfection led to
no good

13. Altered states of consciousness

13.1 Metzinger

13.1 State-specific
sciences
13.2 Is hypnosis an
ASC?

13.1 Is this my normal state of consciousness?

13.1 Discussing ASCs

14. Reality and imagination

14.1 Siegel

14.1 The ganzfeld controversy

14.1 Living without the Supernatural

14.1 Telepathy tests

15. Dreaming and beyond

15.1 Hobson
15.2 Revonsuo

15.1 The evolution of dreaming
15.2 Sleep paralysis

15.1 Staying awake while falling asleep
15.2 Becoming lucid
15.3 What survives?

15.1 Discussing hypnagogia
15.2 Inducing lucid dreams

16. Egos, bundles, and theories of self

16.1 Hume

16.1 Ego and bundle theories of self
16.2 Selves, clubs, and universities

16.1 Who is conscious now?
16.2 Am I the same ‘me’ as a moment ago?

16.1 The teletransporter

17. The view from within?

17.1 Varela

17.1 Do we need a new kind of science?

17.1 Is there more in my phenomenal consciousness than I can access?
17.2 Solitude

17.1 Positioning the theories

18. Waking up

18.1 Harris

18.1 Koans
18.2 Pure consciousness

18.1 What is this?
18.2 Mindfulness

18.1 The headless way