Table of Contents
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Brief Introduction 1
Part I On 'Scientific' Materialism 5
Chapter 1 Why Materialism Is a Dead-End 7
Chapter 2 Ignorance 13
Chapter 3 A Materialism of Qualities? 18
Chapter 4 Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved 22
Chapter 5 Consciousness a Mere Accident? 27
Chapter 6 Brain Image Extraction 34
Chapter 7 The Strange Psychology of Nonsense 38
Part II On Consciousness Denialism 49
Chapter 8 The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness 51
Chapter 9 The Mysterious Reappearance of Consciousness 59
Chapter 10 No Ghost, Just a Shell 65
Part III On Constitutive Panpsychism 77
Chapter 11 Panpsychism Ultimately Implies Universal Consciousness 79
Chapter 12 Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies 86
Part IV On Analytic Idealism 91
Chapter 13 An Overview of Analytic Idealism 93
Chapter 14 Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything? 103
Chapter 15 The Unexpected Origin of Matter 108
Part V On Physics 113
Chapter 16 Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality? 115
Chapter 17 Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics 120
Chapter 18 Reasonable Inferences From Quantum Mechanics 125
Chapter 19 Thinking Outside the Quantum Box 143
Chapter 20 The Universe as Cosmic Dashboard 148
Chapter 21 Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind 153
Chapter 22 Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time? 158
Chapter 23 Why Does Nature Mirror Our Reasoning? 162
Chapter 24 Is Life More Than Physics? 166
Part VI On Psychology and Neuroscience 171
Chapter 25 Transcending the Brain 173
Chapter 26 Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think 178
Chapter 27 Misreporting and Confirmation Bias in Psychedelic Research 183
Chapter 28 Yes, Free Will Exists 188
Part VII Broader Perspectives 193
Chapter 29 Metaphysics and Woo 195
Chapter 30 The Conceivability Trap 202
Chapter 31 The Meaning and Destiny of Western Culture 210
Bibliography 229
