Introduction

Part I. Getting ready for modern thought. History's rigid, rocky, and goofy way of thinking about consciousness

The dawn of empirical thinking in philosophy

Twentieth-century strides and openings to modern thought

Part II. The physical system. Making brains one module at a time

The beginnings of understanding brain architecture

Gramps is demented but conscious

Part III. Consciousness comes. The concept of complementarity : the gift from physics

Non-living to living and neurons to mind

Bubbling brooks and personal consciousness

Consciousness is an instinct.