Part one: Cosmos. The fundamental nature of reality
The world moves by itself
What determines what will happen?
Part two: Understanding. Learning about the world
Is it okay to doubt everything?
What exists, and what is illusion?
What can we know about the world without actually looking at it?
Part three: Essence. How much we know
Interpreting quantum mechanics
The stuff of which we are made
The effective theory of the everyday world
Why does the universe exist?
Part four: Complexity. The universe in a cup of coffee
The origin and purpose of life
Searching through the landscape
Part five: Thinking. Crawling into consciousness
Part six: Caring. Three billion heartbeats
What is and what ought to be
Appendix: The equation underlying you and me.
