What must the brain do to generate the mind? The mind consists of sensations, thoughts, cogitations, intentions, feelings—the felt inner experiences that constitute what we are. How are these capacities or mental qualities produced by the three pounds of warm wet tissues in our skulls? This is science's toughest problem.

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Warren S. Brown is director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology. He is a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute.

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