Introduction -- How children change the world -- How childhood changes the world -- A Road map -- 1. Possible worlds : why do children pretend? -- The power of counterfactuals -- Counterfactuals in children : planning the future -- Reconstructing the past -- Imagining the possible -- Imagination and causation -- Children and causation -- Causes and possibilities -- Maps and blueprints -- Causal maps -- Detecting blickets -- 2. Imaginary companions : how does fiction tell the truth? -- Dunzer and Charlie Ravioli -- Normal weirdness -- Making a map of the mind -- Imaginary companions and psychological knowledge -- Autism, causation, and imagination -- Maps and fictions -- Why minds and things are different -- Soul engineers -- The work of play -- 3. Escaping Plato's cave : how children, scientists, and computers discover the truth -- Observation : baby statistics -- Experimentation : making things happen -- Demonstration : watching mom's experiments -- Understanding minds -- 4. What is it like to be a baby? Consciousness and attention -- External attention -- Internal attention -- Baby attention -- Young children and attention -- What is it like to be a baby? -- Travel and meditation -- 5. Who am I? Memory, self, and the babbling stream -- Consciousness and memory -- Children and memory -- Knowing how you know -- Constructing myself -- Children and the future -- The stream of consciousness -- Living in the moment -- Internal consciousness, free association, hypnagogic thought, and insight meditation -- Why does consciousness change? -- A map of myself : constructing consciousness -- 6. Heraclitus' River and the Romanian orphans : how does our early life shape our later life? -- Life cycles -- The paradox of inheritance -- How babies raise their parents -- 7. Learning to love : attachment and identity -- Theories of love -- Beyond mothers : social monogamy and allomothering -- Life's weather -- The child inside -- 8. Love and law : the origins of morality -- Imitation and empathy -- Anger and vengeance -- Beyond empathy -- Psychopaths -- Trolleyology -- Not like me -- Widening the circle -- Following the rules -- Baby rules -- Doing it on purpose -- Rules as causes -- The perils of rules -- The wisdom of Huck Finn -- 9. Babies and the meaning of life -- Awe -- Magic -- Love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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