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v Contents Acknowledgments | vii Prologue: Leonardo’s Dream | ix origins: Where “I” Comes From | 1 1. First Self | 5 2. Layers of Self | 19 3. Self in the Soil | 33 4. Gathering Our Selves | 45 middles: Childhood’s End | 57 5. The Opposite of Sex | 61 6. Lousy Sex | 73 C o n t e n t s vi 7. The Wizards of “I” | 87 8. Dreams of the Blind | 105 this is not the end: Facing Up to Our Immortality | 127 9. The Mysterious Visions of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck | 131 10. The Rock Collector | 145 11. On the Lip of Immortality | 161 12. Epilogue | 173 ...

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