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List of Figures | p. viii |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xxvi |
Mind and Self | p. 1 |
Can it be so easy? | p. 1 |
Psychological continuity | p. 6 |
First doubts | p. 11 |
Some varieties of virtual life | p. 14 |
Strands untangled | p. 21 |
Phenomenal Unity | p. 28 |
Experience | p. 28 |
Phenomenal space | p. 34 |
Self and awareness | p. 39 |
A superfluous self | p. 42 |
Simplicity and unity | p. 46 |
Phenomenal Continuity | p. 51 |
A constraint | p. 51 |
Memory | p. 53 |
Chunks, apprehensions and representations | p. 56 |
Overlap and flow | p. 63 |
Phenomenal cuts | p. 68 |
The one experience view | p. 71 |
Streamal unity | p. 73 |
Powers and Subjects | p. 75 |
Bridge building | p. 75 |
Experience-machines and beyond | p. 81 |
Power structures | p. 88 |
The C-theory | p. 111 |
Powers in general | p. 114 |
Projection and production | p. 131 |
Alternatives | p. 135 |
The self in experience | p. 135 |
Bridges of resemblance | p. 148 |
Fundamentalism | p. 151 |
Foster's modal bridge | p. 153 |
Unger's material bridge | p. 161 |
Minds and Mental Integration | p. 170 |
From C-systems to minds | p. 170 |
Aspects of mind | p. 171 |
Psycho-phenomenal integration | p. 175 |
C-relations and P-relations | p. 178 |
From a functional perspective | p. 181 |
Non-phenomenal selves | p. 188 |
What matters | p. 192 |
Embodiment | p. 201 |
A blurring | p. 201 |
Four grades of embodiment | p. 203 |
Phenomenal embodiment | p. 206 |
Effective embodiment | p. 209 |
Boundary disputes | p. 215 |
Monist alternatives | p. 224 |
Minimalism and possession | p. 227 |
Simple Selves | p. 236 |
Simplicity and isolation | p. 236 |
Isolation: strands of a defence | p. 238 |
Reductio? | p. 245 |
Minimal subjects | p. 249 |
A minimal modification, and a moral | p. 251 |
Weak unity | p. 254 |
Holism | p. 264 |
Unity and interdependence | p. 264 |
Interdependent potentials | p. 266 |
Phenomenal interdependence | p. 272 |
Organization and interference | p. 273 |
C-holism | p. 277 |
From C-holism to power holism | p. 289 |
Power systematicity | p. 300 |
Simplicity | p. 307 |
Modes of Incapacitation | p. 311 |
Absoluteness | p. 311 |
Some varieties of incapacitation | p. 313 |
Brains | p. 316 |
Cyclical subjects | p. 319 |
Congenial decomposition | p. 321 |
Assessments | p. 325 |
Deviancy | p. 331 |
Teleportation revisited | p. 336 |
From Egos to C-systems | p. 338 |
Objections and Replies | p. 341 |
Ontological qualms | p. 341 |
Issues of substance | p. 342 |
Unity and independence | p. 344 |
Menacing circularities | p. 348 |
Ownership, isolation and holism | p. 354 |
Power worlds | p. 359 |
The Topology of the Self | p. 364 |
Fission | p. 364 |
Fission as fatal | p. 368 |
Can consciousness divide? | p. 370 |
Overlap to the rescue? | p. 373 |
Time travel and double existence | p. 378 |
Personal and phenomenal time | p. 381 |
Non-linearity | p. 385 |
Time and times | p. 389 |
Issues and objections | p. 393 |
Fusion | p. 400 |
The many shapes of life | p. 406 |
Appendix: Reductionism | p. 409 |
Bibliography | p. 418 |
Index | p. 427 |
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