Illustrations. Pre-script.
Part1: Amusing
1. Laughing Matter
2. Toy Mates
3. Matches to Murder
4. When Worlds Collide
5. Swatting Truth
6. Ivory Towers of Babel: Illuminated by Eclipses of the Sun
7. Living with Robots Part2: Musing
8. Magical Mechanisms of Mind
9. Is Consciousness Sensational Inference?
10. Conjuring
11. The Oddest Perceptions: Illusions
12. Reflecting on Mirrors
13. With Two Pins and a Length of String: The Odd Perceptions of Johannes Kepler
14. French without Fears: Denis Diderot and Julian Offray de la Mettrie
15. Samuel Butler: Nowhere in a Mirror
16. On First Reading a Book by Einstein
17. Kenneth Craik’s The Nature of Explanation: Forty Years On
18. The Genius of Alan Turing
19. Premature Reductions and Mythical Productions: Gains and Losses of Explanation
20. Is ESP Crystal Balls?
21. This Estranged Intelligence
Part3: Using
22. Inventing
23. Half-Baked Designs
24. The Fourth Dimension of 3-D
25. See Naples and Live: The Scanning Eye of Copilia
26. Bacon’s Last Egg: Exploratory Science Hands-On
27. Spelling Spells
28. Whatever Happened to Information Theory?
29. Designing Designers
30. Journey to Unconsciousness with Ketamine
31. Engineering Mind. Post-script. Index