Contents
Foreword by Paul Camarata, M.D., FACS Chairman Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine
Preface
Chapter 1. Clockwork
Intermission 1A: A Technical Defeat of Determinism
Intermission 1B: The Debate on Determinism in Physics
Chapter 2. A DNA Blueprint
Intermission 2A: From Genes to DNA
Chapter 3. A Network of Neurons
Intermission 3A: What Makes Mental Concepts Unique
Intermission 3B: Are We the Only Rational Beings on Earth?
Chapter 4. Thoughts, Hopes, and Dreams
Intermission 4A: The Mirror Test
Intermission 4B: Is There a Ghost in the Machine?
Chapter 5. What Ought to Be Done
Intermission 5A: Human Dignity
Intermission 5B: Is There Altruism in the Animal World?
Chapter 6. Help from Beyond
Intermission 6A: The Boundary Conditions of the Universe
Intermission 6B: What Obscures the Grand Beyond
Chapter 7. A New Neuroscience
Intermission 7A: Thinking Animals
Intermission 7B Do Machines Think Like We Do?
Chapter 8. The Shadow of a Paradigm Shift
Index