Table of Contents
A Map of the Journey ix
Introduction xi
Part 1 The Path Laid Out before Us
1 The Arrow (1630) 3
2 Setting Sail (1610) 10
3 Being Time (1630) 16
4 The Tower (1608) 23
5 A Perfect Map (1617) 31
6 The Cosmic Now (now) 38
7 Drifting Dreams of Venice (1609) 44
8 Choose Your Path (1612) 53
9 Taking the Leap (1612) 60
Part 2 An Uncertain Trail through Treacherous Terrain
10 Releasing the Djinn (1610) 71
11 Many Paths Make the Road (1617) 81
12 Sufficient Reason for a Roll of the Dice (1611) 87
13 Through the Gates (1612) 99
14 Splitting the World (1624) 108
15 What Cannot Be Known (1627) 118
16 What We Talk about When We Talk about Free Will (1610) 124
17 The Mind of Ming (1618) 134
18 A Halting Problem (1610) 142
Part 3 Torn Apart and Reassembled
19 Instructions from the Cook (1625) 149
20 Nothing Is Lost (now and then) 157
21 Being and Knowingness (1610) 166
22 Each Morning Is the Universe (1612) 172
23 Wandering in the Desert (1610) 179
24 A Hundred Thousand Million Kalpas (1612) 184
25 Mountains and Mist (1612) 190
26 Hazy Bifurcations in Decohered Histories (1610) 196
Part 4 Lofty Peaks with Endless Views
27 Beneath the Firmament (1608) 201
28 Celestial Spheres (1611) 209
29 Through the Looking Glass (1608) 217
30 Theodicy (1610) 222
31 The Floating Gardens (1611) 229
32 The Painting in the Cave (1613) 236
33 A Dialogue concerning Infinitely Many Things (1608) 243
34 Sickness unto Death (1615) 249
35 An Honored Guest (1611) 255
Part 5 Who Am I? Don't Know!
36 Who Sleeps, Perchance to Dream? (unknown) 263
37 A Simple Arrangement of Some Bits (1610) 268
38 What Survives (1627) 275
39 The Ice Garden (1621) 284
40 An Unfettered Mind (1612) 288
41 The Simulation Argument (unknown) 294
42 Time and Free Will (1624) 299
43 An Arc of Recohering Trajectories (1610-1641) 308
Part 6 Form Is Emptiness; Emptiness Is Form
44 What Is It You Sail In? (1620) 313
45 The Clear Blue Sky (1614) 318
46 At the Foundation (1620) 328
47 The Great Inheritance (1611) 334
48 A Long Hidden Game (1629) 341
49 The Mind-Only School (1619) 348
50 East and West (1630) 354
51 The Arrow (1630) 360
Acknowledgments 361
Notes 363