| Dedication |
| Preface |
| About the Author |
| Acknowledgments |
| Existence, Origin and Other Weird Questions / Chapter 1： |
| Existence, Origin and Other Questions |
| Seeking Answers |
| The Origin of the Universe / Chapter 2： |
| The Mystery of the Universe |
| The Big Bang Theory |
| What Was Before the Big Bang |
| A Big Bang Origin Hypothesis |
| The Emergence of Life / Chapter 3： |
| The Molecules of Life |
| Living Cells |
| Hereditary Molecules DNA and RNA |
| Cell Division and Replication |
| Genes and DNA |
| The Origin of DNA and RNA |
| Multicellular Organisms |
| Sexual Reproduction |
| Evolution |
| From Cells to Brains / Chapter 4： |
| Cells That Sense and React |
| Neurons and Synapses |
| From Neurons to Brains |
| The Human Brain |
| Sensing, Perception and Attention / Chapter 5： |
| Sensory Perception |
| The Existential Sensors of the Somatosensory System |
| Auditory Perception |
| Visual Perception |
| Cognitive Perception |
| Memory and Learning / Chapter 6： |
| Learning and Memories |
| The Neural Basis of Memories |
| Different Kinds of Learning |
| Thinking, Intelligence and Inner Speech / Chapter 7： |
| Meaning and Thinking |
| The Mechanisms of Thinking |
| Intelligence |
| Reasoning |
| Intuition and Insights |
| Irrational Thinking and Superstition |
| Natural Language and Inner Speech |
| Love and Other Emotions / Chapter 8： |
| Emotions and Feelings |
| The Origin of Emotions |
| The Feel of Emotions |
| Emotional Values, Motivation and Empathy |
| The Beautiful, Unexpected and Funny / Chapter 9： |
| The Beauty of the Seen |
| The Beauty of Sound and Music |
| Humor, Comics and Pleasant Laughs |
| Consciousness / Chapter 10： |
| The Mystery of Consciousness |
| Explaining Consciousness |
| The Hard Problem of Consciousness |
| Self-Consciousness |
| Free Will |
| Altered States of Consciousness / Chapter 11： |
| Sleep |
| Dreams and Nightmares |
| Flow and Trance |
| Hypnosis |
| Artificial Intelligence / Chapter 12： |
| From Calculators to Computers |
| Thinking Machines and Artificial Intelligence |
| Weak Artificial Intelligence |
| Strong Artificial Intelligence |
| Artificial Neural Networks |
| Associative Neural Networks |
| Machine Consciousness / Chapter 13： |
| The Forbidden Idea |
| Consciousness in Machines |
| Conscious Robots |
| Conscious Robots and Ethics |
| The Rise of the Technological World / Chapter 14： |
| The Technological Boom |
| Industrial Revolution |
| The Electrification of the World |
| The Birth of Electronics |
| The Digital Revolution |
| Foretelling the Future |
| Weird Science / Chapter 15： |
| Thought Reading and Telepathy |
| Teleportation and Telepresence |
| Getting into the Machine |
| Simulated Worlds |
| Quantum Immortality |
| The Bare New World / Chapter 16： |
| Endarkenment on the Forbidden Planet |
| The Medium Is the Massacre |
| Hackers, Fraudsters and Villains |
| The Naked in the AI Paradise |
| Time, Eternity and Infinity / Chapter 17： |
| Physical Time |
| Mental Time |
| The Arrow of Time |
| Time Travel and Time Machines |
| Eternity and Infinity |
| Seeking for Deliverance / Chapter 18： |
| The Legacy of Mankind |
| The Reality of Reality |
| The Meaning of Life |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
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