How the mind emerges from the brain cannot be answered because it is the wrong question. It pre-supposes mind- independent reality (static ontology) which excludes the mind. The situation improves with working ontology, where reality results from mind-nature structure positing and investment of belief (knowledge). "The brain" then means individual and collective knowledge of brain structure and function, within subject-inclusive experience (mind).

[This will be a repeat presentation of a paper given at the Douglas-McGill Symposium on 28 September 2001. The complete text is at http://www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/kjf/45-TAMUL.htm ]