This book is not about “the problem of consciousness,” which philosophers have been struggling with for hundreds of years in ivory towers, nor about logical, cognitive or mathematical theories of self-concept.
This book is not about the neurology, biology, chemistry, etc. that underlie the capacity for consciousness and self-concept, nor about the various physical and biochemical pathologies that can affect or destroy someone’s self-concept.
This book is not about the history of different philosophical and religious thinking about self-concept, nor about the role of religion, morality, politics, culture, society, and family on the development of self-concept.
Too many of those books have already been written. And while some of them are interesting, and some are even useful for other purposes, they are mostly completely irrelevant to what this book is about.