Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others. "Self" Doubt -- The Personality Contest -- It's Only Words -- A Path Forward -- The Secret of Life -- Bodies -- The Duality of Biological Existence -- It Took Nerve -- Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems -- Romer's Rendition -- Viscerology -- The Behavioral Thoroughfare -- Internalizing the External World -- What Is Cognition? -- Mental Models -- The Evolutionary Landscape of Model-Based Cognition -- Foraging in the Mind -- The Cognitive Brain -- Is Consciousness Mysterious? -- Kinds of Consciousness -- Making Consciousness Meaningful -- Fact-Knowing and Self-Knowing Consciousness -- Non-Knowing Consciousness -- What Consciousness Might Be Like in Other Animals -- Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others.
Summary:
"Joseph LeDoux offers a new framework for understanding how biological processes give rise to the sense of being an independent personality in the world. Theorizing the intricate interdependence of the bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious realms, Ledoux explores the evolution of the human as an "ensemble of being" unique among Earth's animals"-- Provided by publisher.
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