In this book, author Parag Jasani uses just 5 functional components of the model he has developed to explain diverse mind and brain phenomena, including topics mentioned below (followed by their page numbers):
- What is mind? Why do you have it? How does it develop? 13, 67, 110
- What are thoughts? How do they get converted into language? 36, 42
- What makes you capable of making your own decisions? 135
- How do you understand other people's minds? 115
- How do you interact with the world? 27
- Why do you think in language? 56
- Why only parts of your thoughts are processed in language? 56
- How do you select thoughts to be communicated to others? 59
- What is the basis of the inner voice you hear while thinking? 55
- What are different kinds of thought processes & how do they work? 36
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- What is the reason behind chain of thoughts in a thought process? 56
- How do you set your goal by judging and finalizing best decision for execution? How are they executed? 58, 59
- How do you gain sufficient information to make decisions? 54
- What is the role of personality, skills, knowledge, genetic predispositions, habits, etc. in making decisions? 54
- What is Intelligence? 65
- What is consciousness? What is its nature? 209, 212
- How, why, when and where in the brain does consciousness emerge? 67, 211, 69, 211
- What are different types of conscious processes and how do they work together? 84, 85
- When do you become conscious of the experience you are having? 51
- How do subconscious and unconscious processes work? 50
- How subconscious and unconscious thoughts influence your decisions? 47
- What is the degree of control you have over conscious, subconscious and unconscious interactions? 50
- How is consciousness connected to sensations, perception, thoughts, awareness, attention, pain, etc.? 70
- What is the basis of your initial reflexes, intuitions, habitual behaviours, phobias, etc.? 50
- What is the basis of intuition, gut feelings, eureka moments, etc. that occur during your thought process? 57
- How do you become aware of and evaluate various aspects of the experience you are having? 51, 52
- What is perception? 77
- Why are perceptions not always reliable? 8
- What is awareness? 90
- What is the difference between awareness and consciousness? 228
- What is attention? How does it work? 76
- Why is attention limited to one task at a time? 134
- How is it possible for you to be aware of many things when you can pay attention to only one thing at a time? 53
- How do you handle multiple tasks simultaneously? 134
- How do you empathize? What is the mechanism behind it? 115
- What is 'self'? 30
- How can the self be responsible for its actions? 30
- Where is the self located? 30
- How can something that does not weigh anything, is not visible and has no physical dimensions control your actions, behaviour, personality, etc.? 31
- How do you consider people involved with you to make your decisions more effective? 57
- How do you process your day-to-day experiences? 28
- How do you perform physical actions? 116
- Why do humans engage in sports and games? 65
- Why does the brain have two hemispheres? 182
- How does the mechanism of pain work? 79
- How does the mechanism of hunger work? 101
- How do newborns get their instincts? 110
- How do growing children learn logic and reasoning? 110
- How do growing children learn from others? 113
- How and why are male and female brains different? 127
- What is the basis of your personality? 122
- What is the reason behind a person's feeling of being (or wanting to become) superior to others? 101
- What is the evolutionary reason behind the institution of marriage? 128
- Why is the system of monogamous marriage followed by a majority of population? 129
- Why has the evolutionary process awarded pregnancy to the female gender? 129
- Why a majority of population is right handed? 31
- How do you recognize faces? 38
- What is the basis of non-verbal communication like gestures, facial expressions, etc.? 59
- How does the brain process different sensations simultaneously? 71
- Why some of your interactions are executed automatically? 50
- What are various types of inter-generation mechanisms of the mind and how do they work? 94
- How and why do different characteristics of the mind pass on to following generations? 94
- What offers ever increasing intelligence to the mankind? 94
- What are the inter-generation mechanisms behind epigenetic phenomena? 97
- What is the basis of mirror neuron system? 117
- What is the basis of the phenomenon of Classical (Pavlovian) Conditioning? 119
- How physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experiences (a.k.a. the hard problem of consciousness)? 212
- Why are subjective experiences limited to the self? 215
- What is the physical basis of 'qualia'? 214
- How can minds have 'Intentional States'? 145
- What is the mechanism underlying phobia? 98
Never before so many diverse mind related topics have been explained on a single platform. It is your first chance to comprehensively understand how your mind works - a new way to introspect.
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