Contents

Foreword by Daniel C. Dennett

Prologue: From the Beginning Was the Word

1 Barren Virgins

2 Social Genes

3 The “Gene” Meme

4 Differences That Make a Differance

5 Limber Robots and Lumbering Genes

6 Intrapersonal Conflict

7 Scratching Your Own Back

8 Reflexions on Self

9 How Come? What For? Why?

10 Sameness and Difference

11 Fighting the Good Cause

Interlude

12 Making Sense

X Vive la différance

13 On the Origin of Meaning

14 On the Past and Future of Freedom

15 Darwinian Hermeneutics

Cadenza

Appendix (a Vestigial Organ): Words about Words

Acknowledgments

References

Sources

Index