| Preface to the Princeton Science Library Edition | |
| Preface | |
| 1 | The "Organ of the Soul" - from Ancient Egypt to the Belle Epoque | 3 |
| Man Thinks with His Brain | 3 |
| Body and Soul | 7 |
| Phrenology | 13 |
| The Neuron | 21 |
| Electric Current and "Medicinal Substances" | 29 |
| The "Good Sense" of History | 36 |
| 2 | The Component Parts of the Brain | 38 |
| The Macroscopic View of the Brain | 39 |
| The Expansion of the Neocortex | 43 |
| Microcircuits | 46 |
| Wiring | 52 |
| Modules or Crystals | 58 |
| From Mouse to Man | 65 |
| 3 | Animal Spirits | 67 |
| Cerebral Electricity | 68 |
| The Nerve Signal | 73 |
| Oscillators | 77 |
| From One Neuron to Another | 83 |
| The Keys to Molecule Locks | 90 |
| "Psychic Atoms" Reexamined | 95 |
| 4 | Into Action | 97 |
| To Sing and to Flee | 98 |
| To Drink and to Suffer | 103 |
| To Enjoy and to Be Angry | 107 |
| To Reach Orgasm | 112 |
| To Analyze | 115 |
| To Speak and to Do | 120 |
| From Stimulus to Response | 124 |
| 5 | Mental Objects | 126 |
| The Materiality of Mental Images | 127 |
| From Percept to Concept and Thought | 130 |
| Toward a Biological Theory of Mental Objects | 134 |
| Assembling the Neurons | 140 |
| Problems of Consciousness | 145 |
| Attention | 151 |
| The Calculation of Emotion | 158 |
| Seeing Mental Objects | 161 |
| The Substance of the Spirit | 168 |
| 6 | The Power of the Genes | 170 |
| Anatomical Mutations | 171 |
| Heredity and Behavior | 175 |
| The Simplicity of the Genome and the Complexity of the Brain | 180 |
| The Automaton Cell | 186 |
| The Embryo System | 191 |
| The Genesis of the Cortex | 195 |
| The Predestination of the Brain | 202 |
| 7 | Epigenesis | 205 |
| Differences between Identical Twins | 206 |
| The Behavior of the Growth Cone | 212 |
| Regression and Redundancy | 216 |
| The Dreams of the Embryo | 220 |
| Building the Synapse | 223 |
| The Theory of Epigenesis by Selective Stabilization of Synapses | 227 |
| The Experimental Testing of Epigenesis | 229 |
| Hemispheric Specialization - a Genetic or Epigenetic Process? | 235 |
| The Cultural Imprint | 241 |
| "To Learn Is to Eliminate" | 246 |
| 8 | Anthropogenesis | 250 |
| Monkey Chromosomes | 251 |
| Fossil Puzzles | 255 |
| The Winks of the Young Chimpanzee | 259 |
| Genes for Communication and Selective Stabilization | 264 |
| The Genetics of Australopithecus | 268 |
| The "Phenomenon of Man" Reconsidered | 271 |
| 9 | The Brain - Representation of the World | 273 |
| Glossary | 285 |
| Notes | 293 |
| Bibliography | 301 |
| Index | 333 |
