From the Book - Regular Print - First edition.
1 Delicate Pink Magisterium p. 3 --
Child with Half a Brain --
If You're Missing the Tool, Create It --
An Ever-Changing System --
2 Just Add World p. 17 --
How to Grow a Good Brain --
3 Inside Mirrors the Outside p. 26 --
Case of the Silver Spring Monkeys --
Afterlife of Lord Horatio Nelson's Right Arm --
Colonization Is a Full-Time Business --
What Does Dreaming Have to Do with the Rotation of the Planet? --
4 Wrapping Around the Inputs p. 51 --
Planet-Winning Technology of the Potato Head --
Enhancing the Peripherals --
Conjuring a New Sensorium --
Are You Ready for a New Sensation? --
5 How to Get a Better Body p. 109 --
Will the Real Doc Ock Please Raise His Hands? --
No Standard Blueprints --
Motor Cortex, Marshmallows, and the Moon --
One Brain, Infinite Body Plans --
6 Why Mattering Matters p. 139 --
Motor Cortices of Perlman Versus Ashkenazy --
Fashioning the Landscape --
Allowing the Real Estate to Change --
Brain of a Digital Native --
7 Why Love Knows Not Its Own Depth Until the Hour of Separation p. 159 --
Making Invisible the Expected --
Difference Between What You Thought Would Happen and What Actually Happened --
Going Toward the Light. Or Sugar. Or Data. --
Adjusting to Expect the Unexpected --
8 Balancing on the Edge of Change p. 174 --
How to Spread Drug Dealers Evenly --
How Neurons Expand Their Social Network --
Benefits of a Good Death --
Is Cancer an Expression of Plasticity Gone Awry? --
Saving the Brain Forest --
9 Why Is It Harder to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? p. 192 --
Doors Close at Different Rates --
Still Changing After All These Years --
10 Remember When p. 207 --
Talking to Your Future Self --
Enemy of Memory Is Not Time; It's Other Memories --
Parts of the Brain Teach Other Parts --
Daisy-Chaining a Range of Timescales --
11 Wolf and the Mars Rover p. 232 --
12 Finding Ötzi's Long-Lost Love p. 241 --
We Have Met the Shape-Shifters, and They Are Us.