This is a volume in the "Thinking about Thought" series which provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Cognitive Science, Neurobiology, Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Physics, Relativity, Thermodynamics, Evolutionism, theories of dreams, theories of emotions and theories of consciousness. This volume contains the following chapters: 1.Mind And Matter 2.Cognition: A General Property Of Matter 3.Inside The Brain 4.Memory: The Mind's Growth 5.Machine Intelligence 6.Common Sense: Engineering The Mind 7.Connectionism And Neural Machines 8.Language: Minds Speak 9.The History Of Language: Why We Speak 10.Metaphor: How We Speak 11.Pragmatics: What We Speak 12.Meaning: A Journey To The Center Of The Mind