This is the home page for William H. Calvin, theoretical neurophysiologist and author of THE CEREBRAL CODE, HOW BRAINS THINK, and the Atlantic Monthly's cover story, 'The Great Climate Flip-flop.' ...

Chapter titles: The Representation Problem and the Copying Solution, Cloning in Cerebral Cortex, A Compressed Code Emerges, Managing the Cerebral Commons, Resonating with your Chaotic Memories, Partitioning the Playfield, The Brownian Notion, Convergence Zones with a Hint of Sex, Chimes on the Quarter Hour, The Making of Metaphor, Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind.

It expands on my 10/94 Scientific American article to address the evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and language: What to Do Next, Evolving a Good Guess, The Janitor's Dream, Evolving Intelligent Animals, Syntax as a Foundation of Intelligence, Evolution On-The-Fly, Shaping Up an Intelligent Act from Humble Origins, Prospects for a Superhuman Intelligence.

Text of a talk by William Calvin; a biography is also available.