Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- On having no head / D.E. Harding -- Rediscovering the mind / Harold J. Morowitz -- Computing machinery and intelligence / A.M. Turing -- The Turing test : a coffeehouse conversation / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- The princess Ineffabelle / Stanislaw Lem -- The soul of Martha, a beast / Terrel Miedaner -- The soul of the Mark III beast / Terrel Miedaner -- Spirit / Allen Wheelis -- Selfish genes and selfish memes / Richard Dawkins -- Prelude ... ant fugue / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- The story of a brain / Arnold Zuboff -- Where am I? / Daniel C. Dennett -- Where was I? / David Hawley Sanford -- Beyond rejection / Justin Lieber -- Software / Rudy Rucker -- The riddle of the universe and its solution / Christopher Cherniak -- The seventh Sally, or how Trurl's own perfection led to no good / Stanislaw Lem -- Non serviam / Stanislaw Lem -- Is God a Taoist? / Raymond M. Smullyan -- The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- Minds, brains, and programs / John R. Searle -- An unfortunate dualist / Raymond M. Smullyan -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- An epistemological nightmare / Raymond M. Smullyan -- A conversation with Einstein's brain / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Fiction / Robert Nozick -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.