This book is about a question that concerns every human being: What am I, really? Not what I do, not what I can do, not what others think of me — but what I am. What makes me who I am?
It is a question we rarely ask ourselves. Not because it is unimportant, but because it is so close to us that we easily look right past it. We ask how the brain works, how genes are structured, how societies organize themselves. We measure, count, calculate. But the question of who is actually doing the asking — who measures, who counts, who stands behind it all — that question we push aside. And yet it is the most important question of all. For everything else depends on the answer to this question: how we treat one another, how we judge right and wrong, how we want to live.
Sections
- How It All Began
- The Question That Never Lets Go
- From a Doctoral Thesis to a Book
- What This Book Says
- Acknowledgements
- To You, the Reader
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