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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Questions | |
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| Consciousness, the phenomenal self, and the first-person perspective | |
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| Questions | |
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| Overview: The architecture of the book | |
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| Tools I | |
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| Overview: Mental representation and phenomenal states | |
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| From mental to phenomenal representation: Information processing, intentional content, and conscious experience | |
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| Introspectability as attentional availability | |
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| Availability for cognitive processing | |
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| Availability for the control of action | |
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| From mental to phenomenal simulation: The generation of virtual experiential worlds through dreaming, imagination, and planning | |
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| From mental to phenomenal presentation: Qualia | |
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| What is a quale? | |
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| Why qualia don't exist | |
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| An argument for the elimination of the canonical concept of a quale | |
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| Presentational content | |
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| Phenomenal presentation | |
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| The principle of presentationality | |
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| The principle of reality generation | |
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| The principle of nonintrinsicality and context sensitivity | |
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| The principle of object formation | |
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| The Representational Deep Structure of Phenomenal Experience | |
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| What is the conceptual prototype of a phenomenal representatum? | |
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| Multilevel constraints: What makes a neural representation a phenomenal representation? | |
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| Global availability | |
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| Activation within a window of presence | |
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| Integration into a coherent global state | |
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| Convolved holism | |
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| Dynamicity | |
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| Perspectivalness | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Offline activation | |
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| Representation of intensities | |
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| "Ultrasmoothness": The homogeneity of simple content | |
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| Adaptivity | |
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| Phenomenal mental models | |
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| Neurophenomenological Case Studies I | |
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| Reality testing: The concept of a phenomenal model of reality | |
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| Deviant phenomenal models of reality | |
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| Agnosia | |
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| Neglect | |
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| Blindsight | |
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| Hallucinations | |
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| Dreams | |
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| The concept of a centered phenomenal model of reality | |
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| Tools II | |
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| Overview: Mental self-representation and phenomenal self-consciousness | |
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| From mental to phenomenal self-representation: Mereological intentionality | |
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| From mental to phenomenal self-simulation: Self-similarity, autobiographical memory, and the design of future selves | |
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| From mental to phenomenal self-presentation: Embodiment and immediacy | |
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| The Representational Deep Structure of the Phenomenal First-Person Perspective | |
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| What is a phenomenal self-model? | |
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| Multilevel constraints for self-consciousness: What turns a neural system-model into a phenomenal self? | |
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| Global availability of system-related information | |
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| Situatedness and virtual self-presence | |
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| Being-in-a-world: Full immersion | |
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| Convolved holism of the phenomenal self | |
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| Dynamics of the phenomenal self | |
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| Transparency: From system-model to phenomenal self | |
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| Virtual phenomenal selves | |
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| Adaptivity: The self-model as a tool and as a weapon | |
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| Descriptive levels of the human self-model | |
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| Neural correlates | |
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| Cognitive correlates | |
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| Social correlates | |
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| Levels of content within the human self-model | |
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| Spatial and nonspatial content | |
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| Transparent and opaque content | |
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| The attentional subject | |
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| The cognitive subject | |
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| Agency | |
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| Perspectivalness: The phenomenal model of the intentionality relation | |
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| Global availability of transient subject-object relations | |
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| Phenomenal presence of a knowing self | |
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| Phenomenal presence of an agent | |
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| The self-model theory of subjectivity | |
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| Neurophenomenological Case Studies II | |
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| Impossible egos | |
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| Deviant phenomenal models of the self | |
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| Anosognosia | |
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| Ich-Storungen: Identity disorders and disintegrating self-models | |
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| Hallucinated selves: Phantom limbs, out-of-body-experiences, and hallucinated agency | |
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| Multiple selves: Dissociative identity disorder | |
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| Lucid dreams | |
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| The concept of a phenomenal first-person perspective | |
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| Preliminary Answers | |
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| The neurophenomenological caveman, the little red arrow, and the total flight simulator: From full immersion to emptiness | |
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| Preliminary answers | |
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| Being no one | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |