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It stands to reason that the bigger the picture one addresses, the more input
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the wisdom and good judgment of a group of people who have been extraor-
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swering questions over email, or reading sections of the manuscript and
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offering gentle suggestions. I’m extremely grateful to Scott Aaronson, Da-
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Churchland, Tom Clark, Simon DeDeo, John de Lancie, Daniel Dennett,
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Owen Flanagan, Rebecca Goldstein, Joshua Greene, Veronique Green-
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Lenski, Barry Loewer, Malcolm MacIver, Tim and Vishnya Maudlin,
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Christina Ochoa, Taryn O’Neill, Laurie Paul, Steven Pinker, David Poep-
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Sinnott- Armstrong, John Skrentny, Sharon Street, Maia Szalavitz, Jack
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Szostak, Carol Tavris, John Timmer, Zach Weinersmith, Ed Yong, and
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Carl Zimmer for all their help. I owe them all a substantial debt.
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Thanks also to my editor, Stephen Morrow, whom I’ve been very proud
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to work with for three projects now. He and my agent, Katinka Matson,
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played a big role in shaping the book into its current form. Special thanks
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with our joint research projects. And thanks to the John Simon Guggen-
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for support at Caltech.
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Document Outline
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Prologue
PART ONE: COSMOS 1. The Fundamental Nature of Reality
2. Poetic Naturalism
3. The World Moves by Itself
4. What Determines What Will Happen?
5. Reasons Why
6. Our Universe
7. Time's Arrow
8. Memories and Causes
PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING 9. Learning about the World
10. Updating Our Knowledge
11. Is It Okay to Doubt Everything?
12. Reality Emerges
13. What Exists, and What Is Illusion?
14. Planets of Belief
15. Accepting Uncertainty
16. What Can We Know about the World without Actually Looking at It?
17. Who Am I?
18. Abducting God
PART THREE: ESSENCE 19. How Much We Know
20. The Quantum Realm
21. Interpreting Quantum Mechanics
22. The Core Theory
23. The Stuff of Which We Are Made
24. The Effective Theory of the Everyday World
25. Why Does the Universe Exist?
26. Body and Soul
27. Death Is the End
PART FOUR: COMPLEXITY 28. The Universe in a Cup of Coffee
29. Light and Life
30. Funneling Energy
31. Spontaneous Organization
32. The Origin and Purpose of Life
33. Evolution's Bootstraps
34. Searching through the Landscape
35. Emergent Purpose
36. Are We the Point?
PART FIVE: THINKING 37. Crawling into Consciousness
38. The Babbling Brain
39. What Thinks?
40. The Hard Problem
41. Zombies and Stories
42. Are Photons Conscious?
43. What Acts on What?
44. Freedom to Choose
PART SIX: CARING 45. Three Billion Heartbeats
46. What Is and What Ought to Be
47. Rules and Consequences
48. Constructing Goodness
49. Listening to the World
50. Existential Therapy
Appendix: The Equation Underlying You and Me
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
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