Prelude Part 1: The Science of Matter 1 The Origin and Nature of Things 1 Matter, Life and Mind 2 Condensed Matter and Animal Minds2 On the Sciences of Emergence 1 Emergence and Reduction 2 In Search of a General Theory of Emergence 3 The History of HydrodynamicsPart 2: The Science of Mind3 Animal Minds 1 Griffin and Edelman on Animal Minds 2 Gibson and Gregory on Perception 3 Donald and Deacon on Culture and Language 4 An Appreciation and Critique of Donald 4 On the Architectonics of Mind 1 Freud and the New Unconscious 2 Vertical and Horizontal Structures of Mind 3 On the Quartet of Cardinal Qualities Part 3: The Philosophy of Mind 5 On the Logic of Emergence 1 Emergence and Causation 2 On Ghosts and Minds6 Historical-Philosophical Interlude 1 From Descartes to the Present 2 From Spinoza to the Present7 Cartesian Materialism and Its Critics 1 The MIT-Mind 2 A Critique of Mechanical Reason 3 On Minds and Machines 4 The Phenomenological Opposition Postlude Bibliography Index.