Consciousness : an introduction

Sect. 1. The problem

1. What's the problem?

2. What is it like to be ...?

3. What does consciousness do?

Sect. 2. The world

4. Attention and timing

5. The theatre of the mind

6. The grand illusion

Sect. 3. The self

7. Egos, bundles and multiple selves

8. Theories of self

9. Agency and free will

Sect. 4. Evolution

10. The evolution of consciousness

11. The function of consciousness

12. Animal minds

Sect. 5. Artificial consciousness

13. Minds and machines

14. Could a machine be conscious?

15. How to build a conscious machine

Sect. 6. The brain

16. The neural correlates of consciousness

17. The unity of consciousness

18. Damaged brains

Sect. 7. Borderlands

19. Unconscious processing

20. The paranormal

21. Reality and imagination

Sect. 8. Altered states of consciousness

22. Drugs and altered states

23. Sleep, dreams and hypnotic states

24. Exceptional human experience. Sect. 9. First-person approaches

25. The view from within

26. Meditation and mindfulness

27. Buddhism and consciousness