Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Pre-script -- I AMUSING -- 1 LAUGHING MATTER -- 2 TOY MATES -- 3 MATCHES TO MURDER -- 4 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE -- 5 SWATTING TRUTH -- 6 IVORY TOWERS OF BABEL: ILLUMINATED BY ECLIPSES OF THE SUN -- 7 LIVING WITH ROBOTS -- II MUSING -- 8 MAGICAL MECHANISMS OF MIND -- 9 IS CONSCIOUSNESS SENSATIONAL INFERENCE? -- 10 CONJURING -- 11 THE ODDEST PERCEPTIONS: ILLUSIONS -- 12 REFLECTING ON MIRRORS -- 13 WITH TWO PINS AND A LENGTH OF STRING: THE ODD PERCEPTIONS OF JOHANNES KEPLER -- 14 FRENCH WITHOUT FEARS: DENIS DIDEROT AND JULIAN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE -- 15 SAMUEL BUTLER: NOWHERE IN A MIRROR -- 16 ON FIRST READING A BOOK BY EINSTEIN -- 17 KENNETH CRAIK'S THE NATURE OF EXPLANATION: FORTY YEARS ON -- 18 THE GENIUS OF ALAN TURING -- 19 PREMATURE REDUCTIONS AND MYTHICAL PRODUCTIONS: GAINS AND LOSSES OF EXPLANATION -- 20 IS ESP CRYSTAL BALLS? -- 21 THIS ESTRANGED INTELLIGENCE -- Ill USING -- 22 INVENTING -- 23 HALF-BAKED DESIGNS -- 24 THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF 3-D -- 25 SEE NAPLES AND LIVE: THE SCANNING EYE OF COPILIA -- 26 BACON'S LAST EGG: EXPLORATORY SCIENCE HANDS-ON -- 27 SPELLING SPELLS -- 28 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INFORMATION THEORY? -- 29 DESIGNING DESIGNERS -- 30 JOURNEY TO UNCONSCIOUSNESS WITH KETAMINE -- 31 ENGINEERING MIND -- Post-script -- Index