Acknowledgements |
Forward! |
How To Use This Book |
Influencing the Reptile Mind / Week 1: |
Words / Day 1: |
Task: Spend all day trying only to think for yourself |
Identifying the Reptile / Day 2: |
Task: Identify, and talk to, the reptile in your head |
The Fallacy of the Lonely Fact / Day 3: |
Task:Try testing someone's sense of randomness. Offer them a little bet |
The Immortals / Day 4: |
Task: Write (or at least start) a book |
My Three Favourite Animals / Day 5: |
Task: Complete an innocuouslooking survey about animals. |
The Prison of the Self / Day 6: |
Task: Attempt to escape |
Trappism / Day 7: |
Task: Don't talk to anyone |
Observing the Development of Little Minds / Week 2: |
Dotty Experiments on Teddies / Day 8: |
Task: Get Piaget and Teddy to try to unconserve the numbers |
(a.m.) The Cow in the Field-that-gets-built-on / Day 9: |
Task: Make a board game for children |
(p.m.) The Mountains of Egocentricity |
Task: Construct a device to measure egocentricity |
(evening) Behave Yourself! |
Task: Apply behaviourist principles to those around you |
The Dissonance of the $1 Volunteers / Day 10: |
Task: Make the children (or employees, or partners) do some boring repetitive activities |
Investigating Memory / Day 11: |
Task: Memory test: how many of the words can you remember? |
Jargon for Dummies / Day 12: |
Task: Manage someone |
Be Lucky! / Day 13: |
Task: Find out how unlucky you are |
This Is Not a Self-help Book / Day 14: |
Task: Boil down a self-help book |
Experiments in Practical Philosophy / Week 3: |
The Upside-down Goggles / Day 15: |
Task: Make - and wear - some special goggles |
Fire-walking and Cold Baths / Day 16: |
Task: Prepare a bed of red-hot coals or wood embers |
R-pentomino / Day 17: |
Task: Make some of your very own microbes |
(a.m.) Proprioception (Scratching Noses Test) / Day 18: |
Task: Fool your senses into believing your nose is several feet long |
(p.m.) Hear the McGurk Effect |
Task: Fool your senses into hearing things that aren't there |
(a.m) Go for a Long Walk on the Much Too Long Coastal Path / Day 19: |
Task: Measure it in centimetres |
(p.m.) Make a Bed of Nails |
Task: Lie on it overnight |
Now Getting Really Rather Dangerous / Day 20: |
Task: Look at something boring on the Internet |
Doodle / Day 21: |
Task: Draw something |
Miscellaneous Philosophical Investigations / Week 4: |
(a.m.) Molyneux's Problem / Day 22: |
Task: No more dangerous tasks. Pause to conceptualise |
(p.m.) Mary's Room |
Test 3: Why is this one here? |
Unable To See Change / Day 23: |
Task: Check who you are living with is the same person as yesterday |
Cascade Theory / Day 24: |
Task: Chair (or rather rig) a discussion |
Explain Yourself! / Day 25: |
Task: Try to predict your day |
Investigating Un-Reason and Argument / Day 26: |
Task: Play on ambiguity |
Subliminal Messages / Day 27: |
Task: Become aware of hidden messages all around you |
(a.m.) The Power of Prayer / Day 28: |
Task: Pray a little |
(p.m.) Pray for Good Crops |
Task: Pray a little bit harder |
The Horror and the Beauty. Or Vice Versa / Day 29: |
Task: Have a vision - or at least a dream |
Strange Things / Day 30: |
Task: Conduct some telepathy |
Manipulating Minds down on the Farm / Day 31: |
Task: Read between the lines |
Debriefing |
(a.m.) Go for a Long Walk on the Much Too Long Coastal Path |
The Horror and the Beauty Or Vice Versa |
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading |
Index |
Spend all day trying to think for yourself / Task: |
Identify, and talk to, the reptile in your head |
Try testing someone's sense of randomness. Offer them a little bet |
Write (or at least start) a book |
Complete an innocuous-looking survey about animals. |
Attempt to escape ... |
Don't talk to anyone |
Get Piaget and Teddy to try to unconserve the numbers |
Make a board game for children |
Construct a device to measure egocentricity |
Apply behaviourist principles to those around you |
Make the children (or employees, or partners) do some boring repetitive activities |
Memory test: how many of the words can you remember? |
Manage someone |
Find out how unlucky you are |
Boil down a self-help book |
Make - and wear - some special goggles |
Prepare a bed of red-hot coals or wood embers |
Make some of your very own microbes |
Fool your senses into believing your nose is several feet long |
Fool your senses into hearing things that aren't there ... |
Measure it in centimetres |
Lie on it overnight |
Now Getting Really Rather Dangerous ... |
Look at something boring on the Internet |
Draw something |
(a.m.) Molyneux's Problem |
No wore dangerous tasks. Pause to conceptualise |
(p.m.) Mary's Room |
Why is this one here? |
Check who yon are living or working with is the same person as yesterday |
Chair (or rather rig) a discussion |
Try to predict your day |
Play on ambiguity |
Become aware of hidden messages all around yon |
Pray a little |
Pray a little bit harder |
The Horror and die Beauty Or Vice Versa |
Have a vision - or at least a dream |
Conduct some telepathy |
Read between the lines ... |
Proprioception and the McGurk Effect |
Three Lines Test / Appendix A: |