Introduction to Part I: Rationale and foundations. 1. Goal-directed systems : an evolutionary approach to life and consciousness ; 2. The organization and evolution of the mind : from Lamarck to the neuroscience of consciousness ; 3. The emergentist consensus : neurobiological perspectives ; 4. A biological bridge across the qualia gap? ; 5. The distribution question : which animals are conscious?
Introduction to Part II: Major transitions in the evolution of the mind. 6. The neural transition and the building blocks of minimal consciousness ; 7. The transition to associative learning : the first stage ; 8. The transition to unlimited associative learning : how the dice became loaded ; 9. The Cambrian explosion and its soulful ramifications ; 10. The golem's predicament
