Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Who Are You? 1
5. PART I OUR REALMS OF EXISTENCE
6. 1 What Is a Human Being? 9
7. 2 “Self ” Doubt 14
8. 3 The Personality Contest 23
9. 4 It’s Only Words 33
10. 5 A Path Forward 41
11. PART II THE BIOLOGICAL REALM
12. 6 The Secret of Life 51
13. 7 Bodies 61
14. 8 The Duality of Biological Existence 73
15. PART III THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL REALM
16. 9 It Took Nerve 81
17. 10 Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems 92
18. 11 Romer’s Rendition 105
19. 12 Viscerology 110
20. 13 The Behavioral Thoroughfare 120
21. PART IV THE COGNITIVE REALM
22. 14 Internalizing the External World 137
23. 15 What Is Cognition? 146
24. 16 Mental Models 159
25. 17 Model-Based Cognition in Evolution 166
26. 18 Foraging in the Mind 174
27. 19 The Cognitive Brain 183
28. PART V THE CONSCIOUS REALM
29. 20 Is Consciousness Mysterious? 207
30. 21 Kinds of Consciousness 219
31. 22 Making Consciousness Meaningful 230
32. 23 Fact-Knowing and Self-Knowing Consciousness 244
33. 24 Non-Knowing Consciousness 254
34. 25 What Consciousness Might Be Like in Other Animals 268
35. 26 The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others 282
36. Selected Sources and Further Reading 307
37. Index 329