The ecoDarwinian paradigm replaces our traditional explanatory metaphor
of a supreme author and king with scientific concepts of evolution and
ecology. Rather than explain Nature top-down by asking who wanted
something and for what purpose, it seeks a dynamic bottom-up
explanation, by asking how and under what influences a system configured
itself along the lines observed. Today we begin to understand the mind
itself as an outcome of self-organizing firing patterns in a highly
evolved brain. To many, these new ideas will seem far more dangerous
(once grasped) than our kinship with the apes. This book uses dialog
format to review our emerging theory of mind, and to discuss its human
implications.