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Tables of Contents for Minding God
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
x
Preface
xi
Part One: God, Mind, and Cognitive Science
What Does Silicon Valley Have to Do with Jerusalem?
3
20
The Game of the Century
3
2
Silicon Valley
5
4
Jerusalem
9
3
Jerusalem Engaging Athens
12
5
Doing Theology through the Lens of Cognitive Science
17
4
Looking Ahead
21
2
How the Mind Works: A Cognitive Science Perspective
23
26
Cognitive What?
23
1
Cognitive Science: What It Is and What It Isn't
24
5
The Grand Tour
29
7
The Mind as an Information Processor
36
5
The Situated Mind/Brain
41
3
The Cognitive Driver
44
5
Part Two: Minding Persons
Fitting Square Pegs into Round Wholes: The Problem of Consciousness
49
25
What Is Consciousness?
50
3
Can Cognitive Science Tell Us Anything about Consciousness?
53
2
Consciousness as Function
55
5
Reductionism or Emergence?
60
9
If I Die before I Wake: Rethinking the Soul
69
5
Do Split Brains Listen to Prozac?
74
25
The Theological Subject
75
2
One Body, One Mind?
77
8
Painful Pleasure: The Paradox of Emotion
85
10
Constrained to Be Free
95
4
Mysterium Tremendum
99
22
On the Road to Damascus
100
2
Are They Real?
102
3
Religion on the Brain
105
8
Message from Whom?
113
8
Part Three: Minding Nature
Alone in the Universe?
121
30
The Presumption of Uniqueness
122
2
The Locus Humanus
124
4
Rational Animals
128
5
Know Thyself
133
4
Feeling Machines?
137
8
Imaging God
145
6
Whence Original Sin?
151
32
In the Garden
152
2
Saints and Sinners
154
2
Born Selfish?
156
6
Machiavellian Intelligence?
162
6
Are We Really That Way?
168
2
Organized to Self-Organize
170
5
Falling Up?
175
8
Part Four: Minding God
The Mind of God
183
19
God as Person
184
4
From Design to Mind
188
9
God:World::Mind:Body
197
5
The Nature and Destiny of Minds
202
21
The Crown of Creation?
203
2
The Place of Mind in the Universe
205
9
Techno-Sapiens: The Future of Human Minds
214
5
Conclusion: The Ultimate Future of Minds
219
4
Glossary
223
4
Notes
227
8
Bibliography
235
12
Index
247