Preface
Prologue: An Ideal World

Chapter One: WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A CONSCIOUS BODY
     1.1 The Bearable Unlikelihood of Being
     1.2 The Triune World
     1.3 Mind-Body Problems
     1.4 Immaculate Misconceptions
     1.5 The Way of the Flesh
     1.6 The Body's Final Betrayal
     1.7 Self-Made Man

Chapter Two: A BRIEF HISTORY OF REALITY
     2.1 Making and Un-making the Real
     2.2 The Raw and the Cooked
     2.3 Is Modern Man Degenerate?
     2.4 The Masculine Birth of Consciousness
     2.5 The Rebellion Against Nature

Chapter Three: IDEALITY: the House that Man Built
     3.1 The Nature of Ideals
     3.2 The Ideal as Real
     3.3 A Home Away from Home
     3.4 Idealism in Science and Religion
     3.5 The Concept of Nature

Chapter Four: THE MYSTIQUE OF MECHANISM
     4.1 What is a Machine?
     4.2 Is Reality Exhaustible?
     4.3 Womb Envy
     4.4 Power Tools

Chapter Five: SUPER MAN: Dreams and Nightmares of Transhumanism
     5.1 The Importance of Being Human
     5.2 Immortality
     5.3 Superintelligence
     5.4 Subjective Heaven
     5.5 Hubris and Heroics
     5.6 Fallacies of Control

Chapter Six: IT'S (STILL) A MAN'S WORLD
     6.1 Technology and the World Machine
     6.2 No Free Lunch
     6.3 Control and Surrender
     6.4 The Grand Error of Nature
     6.5 A Balance of Heaven and Earth

Chapter Seven: PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE
     7.1 I Shopt, Therefore I Am
     7.2 Wise (Not Smart) Technology
     7.3 Healing the Body Politick: the Limits of Consumer Individualism

Epilogue: TAKING BACK REALITY
Appendix: SMALL STEPS TO A BETTER WORLD
Reference Notes
Index