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Part Two: The Theory

The book builds its positive case. Consciousness is produced by structure and functioning. The "you-ness" of consciousness, which the theory calls ixperiencitness, is not tied to particular atoms. The brain itself is already proving the theory every second.

Chapters in this Part

1. 4You Are Not Your AtomsTo understand why you can never truly die, you first need to fully absorb a simple but important truth: the matter itself does not perpetuate the self. It is the structure and functioning of matter th
2. 5The Ship Of Theseus — Applied To YouIn ancient Athens, there was said to be a ship that had belonged to the hero Theseus. [11] The Athenians preserved it in a harbor as a monument, and as the years passed, the salt air and sea did their
3. 6Your Brain Is Already Proving The TheoryThe theory in this book might sound abstract, philosophy dressed up in scientific language. But the most powerful evidence for it comes not from thought experiments but from real cases. Real brains. R
4. 7The Awarepath: Your Conscious LifetimeImagine you could rewind the movie of your life. Not the external events, not the home videos or the photographs, but the inner movie. Every sight, every sound, every taste, every flash of emotion, ev
5. 8Ixperiencitness: What It'S Like To Be YouClose your eyes for a moment and listen. Whatever you hear right now — traffic, wind, a refrigerator humming, silence — you are hearing it as you. Not as anyone else. Not as a generic conscious being.
6. 9The Hard Problem — HonestlyI have been accused, more than once, of waving away the hard problem of consciousness. Of treating it as a minor technical detail rather than the profound mystery it is. Of building an entire theory o
7. 10The Multiplicity Of YouNow we arrive at one of the most radical and most important ideas in Ixperiencit Theory: conscious multiplicity.