Toward Consilience

1. Introduction.- 2. Algorithms of the Brain.- 3. The Primary Algorithm of our Brain. What is it?.- 4. The Primary Algorithm and Behavior. Life, What does it do?.- 5. The Second Algorithm: Our Brain of Conflict.- 6. The Algorithmic Rules of Reciprocal Behavior.- 7. How we think: Brain Algorithms in Psychodynamics.- 8. How we Philosophize: The Primary Algorithm, Dialectic, and Logic in the West.- 9. How we Philosophize: Dialectic, Being, and Harmony in the East.- 10. Brain Algorithms in Mysticism, Cannibalism.- 11. Brain Algorithms of Adaptation, Rationality, and Exploration.- 12. Buber’sIandYou: The Inner and Outer Dynamic of the Reciprocal Algorithm.- 13. Totalization: The Dialectical Thought of Teilhard de Chardin.- 14. Habermas: Dialectic, Ethics, and Social Theory.- 15. The Primary Algorithm in Contemporary Philosophy.- 16. Brain Algorithms and Human Language.- 17. The Limitations of Present Day Syntax Theory.- 18. Value, Context, and the Origin of Meaning: Spoken vs Written Language.- 19. Universal Grammar and the Evolution of Language.- 20. The Primary Algorithm and Chomsky’s Minimalist Program.- 21. Language, Brain, and Neuron.- 22. Further Thoughts on the Neural Organization of the Primary Algorithm.- 23. Further Thoughts on Physics and the Primary Algorithm.- 24. Conclusion.- Appendix 1: MacLean’s Triune Brain Concept: In Praise and Appraisal.- Appendix 2: The Primary Algorithmic Lexicon.