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The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human / Joseph E. LeDoux.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780674261259
ISBN: 0674261259
Physical Description: xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What Is a Human Being? -- "Self" Doubt -- Personality Contest -- It's Only Words -- A Path Forward -- Secret of Life -- Bodies -- Duality of Biological Existence -- It Took Nerve -- Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems -- Romer's Rendition -- Viscerology -- Behavioral Thoroughfare -- Internalizing the External World -- What Is Cognition? -- Mental Models -- Model-Based Cognition in Evolution -- Foraging in the Mind -- 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.