Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue: Leonardo’s Dream ix
5. Origins Where “I” Comes From 1
6. 1 First Self 5
7. 2 Layers of Self 19
8. 3 Self in the Soil 33
9. 4 Gathering Our Selves 45
10. Middles Childhood’s End 57
11. 5 The Opposite of Sex 61
12. 6 Lousy Sex 73
13. 7 The Wizards of “I” 87
14. 8 Dreams of the Blind 105
15. This Is Not the End Facing Up to Our Immortality 127
16. 9 The Mysterious Visions of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck 131
17. 10 The Rock Collector 145
18. 11 On the Lip of Immortality 161
19. Epilogue 173