Table of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Part I 1. Missing Factors in Neo-Darwinian Thought MISSING FACTORS NATURAL SELECTION INADEQUATE THE SITUATION IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS RANDOMNESS INADEQUATE SIGNIFICANCE OF VAST TIME SPANS NECESSITY OF ENERGY SOURCES NATURAL SELECTION 2. Abiogenesis: Its Postulated Mechanisms RANDOM SYSTEMS POSTULATED AS LEADING TO ABIOGENESIS-THE ORIGIN OF BIOMONOMERS SPONTANEOUS SYNTHESIS OF BIOMONOMERS SPONTANEOUS SYNTHESIS OF BIOMONOMERS-AMINO ACIDS SPONTANEOUS SYNTHESIS OF BUILDING BLOCKS-SUGARS SPONTANEOUS SYNTHESIS OF BUILDING BLOCKSHETEROCYCLIC BASES SPONTANEOUS SYNTHESIS OF BIOMONOMERS-PORPHYRINS THE SYNTHESIS OF LIFE FROM ITS BUILDING BLOCKS SPONTANEOUS BIOMONOMERS BUT NO SPONTANEOUS SEQUENCED PROTEINS ENTROPY "HOLES" AND ENTROPY "MOUNTAINS" 3. Mechanisms for Macromolecular Synthesis DEHYDRATION, CONDENSATION AND POLYMERIZATION OF BUILDING BLOCKS MECHANISMS FOR OBTAINING DIRECTION IN SYNTHESIS VARIOUS VIEWS ON THE ORIGIN OF DIRECTION AND SPECIFICITY IN SYNTHESIS MECHANISMS BY WHICH DIRECTION, SPECIFICITY AND CODING MAY BE INTRODUCED INHERENT MECHANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CODING SEQUENCES AN ILLUSTRATION FROM SPITZBERGEN THE MAGNITUDE OF NATURAL SPECIFICITY AUTOCATALYTIC AUTODIRECTIVE FEEDBACK A FURTHER ILLUSTRATION COMPLEXITY AND SPECIFICITY 4. Prebiological Systems THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING ORIGINS COACERVATES MICROSPHERES COACERVATES, MICROSPHERES AND MORPHOGENICITY CRITERIA OF "BEING ALIVE" FURTHER EVIDENCE CITED BY KENYON AND STEINMAN REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM AN ILLUSTRATION FROM TURKEY 5. The Genetic Code and its Meaning RANDOM PROCESSES IN ARCHEBIOPOESIS SEA WAVES AND COLUMNS OF WATER: AN ILLUSTRATION ARCHEBIOPOESIS AND DNA THE GENETIC CODE THE NATURE OF CONSTRAINTS IN MACROMOLECULAR SYNTHESIS CONSTRAINT AND PROBABILITY THE NATURE OF SPECIFICITY AND BIOLOGICAL CODING 6. Biochemical Predestination: Further Implications RECENT TRENDS IN ABIOGENETIC THEORY SOME CONSEQUENCES OF BIOCHEMICAL PREDESTINATION MAZE-RUNNING AND MICE INHERENT PROPERTIES MANDATORY BOWING TO THE EVIDENCE THE ORIGIN OF CONSTRAINT ANOTHER LOOK AT KENYON'S BIOMONOMER CONSTRAINT A SUGGESTED SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF CONSTRAINT AND DIRECTION IN SYNTHESIS "CANNED" INFORMATION AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE NEAR EAST FACING UP TO THE REAL PROBLEM Part 7. Relationships between Speciation and Metabolic Energy PROGRAMMING THE CELL: ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS METABOLIC ENERGY, PROGRAMMING AND INTELLIGENCE THE BRAIN AS A CONVERTER OF CALORIES INTO CODES A NEW AND HITHERTO UNPRECEDENTED STEP EXPERIMENTS IN THE UPWARD EVOLUTION OF SUGAR BEET THE UNIQUENESS OF THE BRAIN AS A CODING ORGAN THOUGHT EXOGENOUS TO BIOLOGY-SOME INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTIES 8. Artificial Consciousness CULBERTSON'S WORK THE NERVE NET THEORY OF SENSE DATA AND CONSCIOUSNESS C. D. BROAD'S WORK ON BRAIN FUNCTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS INHERENT PROGRAMMING: THE BRAIN VS. THE TELEVISION SET FURTHER ASPECTS OF CULBERTSON'S VIEWS ON CONSCIOUSNESS THE INADEQUACY OF PURELY MECHANICAL CONCEPTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS SIR JAMES JEANS AND THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THE UNIVERSE-A THOUGHT IN CONSCIOUSNESS DESIGN-THE EVIDENCE FOR MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS 9. Consciousness and the Space/Time Continuum DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE OF A WORLD-LINE WORLD-LINES AND CONSCIOUSNESS FURTHER WORK ON THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS BOHR'S VIEWS ON CONSCIOUSNESS TRANSFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS AND INDETERMINACY THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL WORMS AND INDETERMINACY SUMMARY 10. Intelligence: Artificial and Biological DEFINITION OF INTELLIGENCE IMPORTANT PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH BIOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL INTELLIGENCE BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR BROAD-SPECTRUM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE BRAIN AND THE COMPUTER COMPARED UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND PATTERN RECOGNITION: ANDROIDS AND PARTIAL ROBOTS A REVIEW OF SIGNIFICANT FACTORS IN HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTELLIGENCE MEASUREMENT OF MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS SUMMARY 11. Toward a Synthesis in the Problem of Origins CYBERNETICS AND THE PROBLEM OF ORIGINS THE SOURCE OF CODING INFORMATION REVIEW OF THE THREE ACCOUNTS OF INTELLIGENCE BEHIND UNIVERSAL ORDER WILLIAM PALEY AND THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN THE "SUPER-COMPUTERS" PALEY AGAIN-SOME CONSEQUENCES JAMMING THE "THOUGHT-MILL" CONCLUSION-SAMSON 12. Quantitative Considerations and Prospects SUMMARIZING THE PROBLEM MATHEMATICALLY COMMUNICATION THEORY UPHEAVAL OVERDUE IN THEORY OF ORIGINS INTELLIGENCE AND THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN THE COMMUNICATION GAP THE DESIGNER AND THE DESIGNED NATURAL SELECTION AND LARGE TIME SPANS AS MECHANISMS FOR REDUCED ENTROPY STATUS...