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The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human / Joseph E. LeDoux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LeDoux, Joseph E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology.
- Cognition.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Conscience.
- Consciousness.
- Human beings.
- Neurobiology.
- Self.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Joseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new framework, theorizing four realms of existence--bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious. Together, these four realms operate continuously as an "ensemble of being" to make humans who and what we are.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Who Are You?
- Part I. Our Realms of Existence
- 1. What Is a Human Being?
- 2. "Self" Doubt
- 3. The Personality Contest
- 4. It's Only Words
- 5. A Path Forward
- Part II. The Biological Realm
- 6. The Secret of Life
- 7. Bodies
- 8. The Duality of Biological Existence
- Part III. The Neurobiological Realm
- 9. It Took Nerve
- 10. Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems
- 11. Romer's Rendition
- 12. Viscerology
- 13. The Behavioral Thoroughfare
- Part IV. The Cognitive Realm
- 14. Internalizing the External World
- 15. What Is Cognition?
- 16. Mental Models
- 17. Model-Based Cognition in Evolution
- 18. Foraging in the Mind
- 19. The Cognitive Brain
- Part V. The Conscious Realm
- 20. Is Consciousness Mysterious?
- 21. Kinds of Consciousness
- 22. Making Consciousness Meaningful
- 23. Fact-Knowing and Self-Knowing Consciousness
- 24. Non-Knowing Consciousness
- 25. What Consciousness Might Be Like in Other Animals
- 26. The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others
- Selected Sources and Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed on June 10, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29466-1
- 0-674-29467-X
- OCLC:
- 1398308792
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