In the palaces of memory : how we build the worlds inside our heads / George Johnson.

New York : Vintage Books, a diviision of Random House,Inc, 1992.

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

First Vintage books edition.

Originally published in hardcover by A. Knopf, New York, 1991.

PREFACE -- Invisible Palaces -- PRELUDE -- The Tower in the Jungle -- PART ONE -- Mucking Around in the Wetware -- A Dark Continent -- Looking for Engrams -- The Brain's Volume Controls -- Early Obsessions -- Growing New Wires -- Strengthening Connections -- An Exotic Phenomenon -- The Porcupine Effect -- Sharing a Hallucination -- Artificial Amnesia -- A Hostile Replication -- The King of the Hill -- Off-the-Shelf Enzymes -- Religious Feuds -- "A Beautiful Little Switch" -- Hebb's Return -- Intuition and Ambiguity -- FIRST INTERLUDE -- A Brain in a Box -- PART TWO -- The Memory Machine -- Theorizing About Theorizing -- Atomic Choreography -- The Structures of Experience -- Magnets and Brain Cells -- Universal Machines -- Toward a Mushier Computer -- The Exorcists -- Systems of Symbols -- A Model of Memory -- Animal Logic -- Resonance and Reality -- Something Deeply Hidden -- Knowledge Engineering -- Another Change in Fashion -- The Man in the Pineapple Shirt -- The Price of an Idea -- SECOND INTERLUDE -- "God Is a Tinkerer" -- PART THREE -- The End of Philosophy -- Spooky Stuff -- Philosophy's Hinterlands -- Celestial Navigation -- Rocky Waters -- What a Number Is -- FINAL REFLECTIONS.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247) and index.