Table of Contents

Front Matter

Boxes
Prefaces
Acknowledgements

Main Text

Introduction

Section One: The problem

1. What’s the problem?
2. What is it like to be …?
3. The grand illusion

Section Two: The brain

4. Neuroscience and the correlates of consciousness
5. The theatre of the mind
6. The unity of consciousness

Section Three: Mind and action

7. Attention
8. Conscious and unconscious
9. Agency and free will

Section Four: Evolution

10. Evolution and animal minds
11. The function of consciousness
12. The evolution of machines

Section Five: Borderlands

13. Altered states of consciousness
14. Reality and imagination
15. Dreaming and beyond

Section Six: Self and other

16. Egos, bundles, and theories of self
17. The view from within?
18. Waking up

End Matter

References
Index