1The Definition of the Spark
225 The Worm That Never Forgets
2The Electric Conversation
235.1 The Immortal Blueprint
3When the Collective Breaks
245.2 Rewriting the Pattern
4Robots Made of Meat
255.3 The Geometric Memory
5The Agency of Matter
266 When the Collective Breaks
61 The Unseen Thinkers
276.1 The Defector’s Dilemma
71.1 The Brain Bias
286.2 Shrinking the Event Horizon
81.2 Competence Without Comprehension
296.3 Talking Them Back into the Fold
91.3 The Geography of Problems
307 Interrogating the Alien
102 The Ghost is a Loop
317.1 A Turing Test for Tissues
112.1 The Governor and the Glitch
327.2 The Calculus of Competence
122.2 Invisible Thermostats
337.3 Flatworms, Frogs, and Frankenstein
132.3 The Russian Dolls of Control
348 Building New Minds
143 The Cognitive Speck
358.1 The Xenobot Paradox
153.1 Navigating Without a Map
368.2 Robots Made of Meat
163.2 The Memory of Jelly
378.3 Mapping the Morphospace
173.3 The Immune Swarm
389 The Software of Life
184 The Electric Blueprint
399.1 The Diplomat’s Medicine
194.1 The Spark of Form
409.2 The Ethics of Programmable Flesh
204.2 Building Without Blueprints
419.3 The Cognitive Horizon
214.3 Hacking the Growth Code
