Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Leonardo's Dream -- Origins: Where "I" Comes From -- 1. First Self -- 2. Layers of Self -- 3. Self in the Soil -- 4. Gathering Our Selves -- Middles: Childhood's End -- 5. The Opposite of Sex -- 6. Lousy Sex -- 7. The Wizards of "I" -- 8. Dreams of the Blind -- This Is Not the End: Facing Up to Our Immortality -- 9. The Mysterious Visions of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck -- 10. The Rock Collector -- 11. On the Lip of Immortality -- Epilogue.