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Mind Is Flat

Nick Chater

Is there really a hidden inner depth to your mind, or does your brain invent thoughts, beliefs and feelings in the moment?

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Author
Nick Chater

Why read it

  • You will question the sense that your beliefs and preferences wait fully formed in some deep inner sea
  • You will understand how each new thought is built from fragments of your past thoughts, in Chater's account
  • You will weigh Chater's view that directing how you keep reinventing yourself can shape who you become

Who it is for

  • A reader curious about how memory, choice and emotion really work
  • A psychology student meeting the improvised mind idea
  • Someone who distrusts their own self analysis

Contents

  1. Prologue: Literary Depth, Mental Shallows
  2. PART ONE The Illusion of Mental Depth
  3. 1 The Power of Invention
  4. 2 The Feeling of Reality
  5. 3 Anatomy of a Hoax
  6. 4 The Inconstant Imagination
  7. 5 Inventing Feelings
  8. 6 Manufacturing Choice
  9. PART TWO The Improvised Mind
  10. 7 The Cycle of Thought
  11. 8 The Narrow Channel of Consciousness
  12. 9 The Myth of Unconscious Thought
  13. 10 The Boundary of Consciousness
  14. 11 Precedents not Principles
  15. 12 The Secret of Intelligence
  16. Epilogue: Reinventing Ourselves

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