- IntroductionOn one shift and a thousand prostheses6
- Chapter 1On how a human being functions before they begin to “work on themselves.”13
- Chapter 2On regulators, emotions, and why the body tries to protect us.26
- Chapter 3On returning to the Center of Regulation48
- Chapter 4How the body really makes decisions — and why it doesn’t need any strategy to do so58
- Chapter 5A New Language of Regulation78
- Chapter 6World in overload86
- Chapter 7Culture and Languages100
- Chapter 8Transition: from nervous system regulation to further integration of consciousness107
- Chapter 9Loop, Simulation, and Time: Why We Get Stuck — and How We Can Move Forward118
- Chapter 10One Loop, Different Scales. The Geometry of Incompletion133
- Chapter 11On the words that were meant to help us live — and began to replace life itself141
- Chapter 12Manifesto of the Principle of Wholeness155
- Chapter 13On Consciousness That Is Not One161
- Closing164