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CONTENTS

1 The Delicate Pink Magisterium

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

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