Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: "Who Are You?"

Part I. Our Realms of Existence

Chapter 1: What Is a Human Being?

Chapter 2: ‘Self’ Doubt

Chapter 3: The Personality Contest

Chapter 4: It's Only Words

Chapter 5: A Path Forward

Part II. The Biological Realm

Chapter 6: The Secret of Life

Chapter 7: Bodies

Chapter 8: The Duality of Biological Existence

Part III. The Neurobiological Realm

Chapter 9. It Took Nerve

Chapter 10. Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems

Chapter 11. Romer's Rendition

Chapter 12: Viscerology

Chapter 13: The Behavioral Thoroughfare

Part IV. The Cognitive Realm

Chapter 14: Internalizing the External World

Chapter 15: What Is Cognition?

Chapter 16: Mental Models

Chapter 17: The Evolutionary Landscape of Model-Based Cognition

Chapter 18: Foraging in the Mind

Chapter 19: The Cognitive Brain

Part V. The Conscious Realm

Chapter 20: Is Consciousness Mysterious?

Chapter 21: Kinds of Consciousness

Chapter 22: Making Consciousness Meaningful

Chapter 23: Fact-Knowing, and Self-Knowing Consciousness

Chapter 24: Non-Knowing Consciousness

Chapter 25: Them and US

Chapter 26: Stories We Tell Our ‘Self’