More difficult even than such reclassifications are the emotional conceptual changes we must
embrace to shift from the attractive picture of minds as immortal souls central to the universe to the
biological picture of minds as neural processes of no apparent cosmic significance. I hope that
Chapter 7 will ease such emotional transitions by showing how understanding brains can help us to
appreciate how minds nevertheless can find and create meaning through the pursuit of love, work, and
play, reducing the lure of dualism. This biological picture need not be at all dismal and can suggest
effective means of increasing human well-being.