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

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023Description: xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674261259
  • 0674261259
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 612.8/233 23 L474
Contents:
What Is a Human Being? -- "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 -- Model-Based Cognition in Evolution -- 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"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What Is a Human Being? -- "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 -- Model-Based Cognition in Evolution -- 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.

"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"--