Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body - the 'me' inside me - is compelling and inescapable. This book deals with this topic.

Bruce Hood explores how we may be pre-wired with a mind design that creates our 'Supersense' that shapes our intuitions and superstitions and is essential to the way we learn to understand the world and in binding us together as a society.