Introduction
Mind from Matter
by Andrea Gawrylewski
Section 1: What Is Consciousness
1.1 How Matter Becomes Mind
by Max Bertolero and Danielle S. Bassett
1.2 How to Make a Consciousness Meter
by Christof Koch
1.3 Can Lab-Grown Brains Become Conscious?
by Sara Reardon
1.4 The Brain Electric
by Christof Koch
1.5 How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
by John Horgan
Section 2: How We Perceive the World
2.1 Our Inner Universes
by Anil K. Seth
2.2 Why We Have Free Will
by Eddy Nahmias
2.3 The Brain Learns in Unexpected Ways
by R. Douglas Fields
2.4 The Brain’s Social Road Maps
by Matthew Schafer and Daniela Schiller
2.5 Face Values
by Doris Y. Tsao
2.6 Radical Change
by Michael A. Hogg
Section 3: Unconscious Mind
3.1 The Intention Machine
by Richard A. Andersen
3.2 Infectious Dreams
by Tore Nielsen
3.3 Sleep Learning Gets Real
by Ken A. Paller and Delphine Oudiette
3.4 Answering Queries in Real Time while Dreaming
by Diana Kwon
3.5 Can Science Illuminate Our Inner Dark Matter?
by John Horgan
Section 4: Altered Reality
4.1 A Disorder of Mind and Brain
by Diana Kwon
4.2 The Undiscovered Illness
by Simon Makin
4.3 Could COVID Delirium Bring on Dementia?
by Carrie Arnold
4.4 A Psychedelic Renaissance
by Danielle Schlosser and Thomas R. Insel