Prologue: Literary Depth, Mental Shallows
Part One: The Illusion of Mental Depth
1. The Power of Invention
2. The Feeling of Reality
3. Anatomy of a Hoax
4. The Inconstant Imagination
5. Inventing Feelings
6. Manufacturing Choice
Part Two: The Improvised Mind
7. The Cycle of Thought
8. The Narrow Channel of Consciousness
9. The Myth of Unconscious Thought
10. The Boundary of Consciousness
11 Precedent Not Principles
12. The Secret of Intelligence
Epilogue: Reinventing Ourselves