The Four Realms of Existence|Contents|Contents by Parts

Preface

Introduction: Who Are You?

Part I. Our Realms of Existence

1. What Is a Human Being?

2. “Self” Doubt

3. The Personality Contest

4. It’s Only Words

5. A Path Forward

6. The Secret of Life

7. Bodies

8. The Duality of Biological Existence

9. It Took Nerve

10. Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems

11. Romer’s Rendition

12. Viscerology

13. The Behavioral Thoroughfare

14. Internalizing the External World

15. What Is Cognition?

16. Mental Models

17. Model-Based Cognition in Evolution

18. Foraging in the Mind

19. The Cognitive Brain

20. Is Consciousness Mysterious?

21. Kinds of Consciousness

22. Making Consciousness Meaningful

23. Fact-Knowing and Self-Knowing Consciousness

24. Non-Knowing Consciousness

25. What Consciousness Might Be Like in Other Animals

26. The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others

Selected Sources and Further Reading

Index