Thompson’s deep-continuity thesis in seven words. Where there is life there is mind - and, he adds in the preface to Mind in Life (2007), mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Consciousness is not a late software patch on a mindless machine; the self-organising dynamics of living systems already are a form of mindedness. The book ties biology, phenomenology and cognitive science into one argument, continuing the enactive line opened with Varela and Rosch in The Embodied Mind. For anyone who has outgrown the ghost-in-the-machine picture - see also No. 34 and No. 42 - this is the positive claim: life and mind share a root.