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Intro -- 1.The Electric Living Fabric -- The Child with Half a Brain -- Life's Other Secret -- If You're Missing the Tool, Create It -- An Ever-Changing System -- 2. Just Add World -- How to Grow a Good Brain -- Experience Necessary -- Nature's Great Gamble -- 3. The Inside Mirrors the Outside -- The Case of the Silver Spring Monkeys -- The Afterlife of Lord Horatio Nelson's Right Arm -- Timing Is Everything -- Colonization Is a Full-Time Business -- The More the Better -- Blindingly Fast -- What Does Dreaming Have to Do with the Rotation of the Planet? -- As Outside, So Inside -- 4. Wrapping Around the Inputs -- The Planet-Winning Technology of the Potato Head -- Sensory Substitution -- The One-Trick Pony -- Eye Tunes -- Good Vibrations -- Enhancing the Peripherals -- Conjuring a New Sensorium -- Imagining a New Color -- Are You Ready for a New Sensation? -- 5. How to Get a Better Body -- Will the Real Doc Ock Please Raise His Hands? -- No Standard Blueprints -- Motor Babbling -- The Motor Cortex, Marshmallows, and the Moon -- Self-Control -- Toys Are Us -- One Brain, Infinite Body Plans -- 6. Why Mattering Matters -- The Motor Cortices of Perlman Versus Ashkenazy -- Fashioning the Landscape -- Dogged -- Allowing the Real Estate to Change -- The Brain of a Digital Native -- 7. Why Love Knows Not Its Own Depth Until the Hour of Separation -- A Horse in the River -- Making Invisible the Expected -- The 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 -- When Haiti Disappears -- How to Spread Drug Dealers Evenly -- How Neurons Expand Their Social Network -- The Benefits of a Good Death -- Is Cancer an Expression of Plasticity Gone Awry? -- Saving the Brain Forest. |
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9. Why Is It Harder to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? -- Born as Many -- The Sensitive Period -- Doors Close at Different Rates -- Still Changing After All These Years -- 10. Remember When -- Talking to Your Future Self -- The Enemy of Memory Is Not Time -- It's Other Memories -- Parts of the Brain Teach Other Parts -- Beyond Synapses -- Daisy-Chaining a Range of Timescales -- Many Kinds of Memory -- Modified by History -- 11. The Wolf and the Mars Rover -- 12. Finding Ötzi's Long-Lost Love -- We Have Met the Shape-Shifters, and They Are Us -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index -- Illustration Credits. |
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| ISBN |
9781838850975 (electronic bk.) |
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9781838850968 |
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