Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: the quantum crisis -- Mind out of matter, the machinery of the fourth brain -- Opening the mind's eye -- Death and birth -- Teaching a young dog old tricks -- The wet net -- Spinning the glass fantastic -- The game of life, or how the leopard gets its spots -- By your bootstraps -- Is man a machine? -- The insoluble solution -- EPR: wanted: dead or alive -- E unus pluribum, out of one mystery, many -- Stranger in a strange land (the stranger the better) -- In the matter of mind -- The protean computer -- To fickle chance, and chaos judge the strife -- Quantum ripples -- Appendix A: the simplest hopfield net and the "canonical cortical microcircuit" -- Appendix B: The Tuszynski microtubule model -- Appendix C: coherence and decoherence