With this book, I shall present a model for how the evolutionary process led to
consciousness, as well as what is known about how the brain accomplishes this feat …

W e live in an era in which the brain has come to signify the central component of human
identity. It's common to hear people blurt out statements like “our brains are wired to do …

“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-
brain problem How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical “stuff”—atoms …

So much human (and, probably, animal) cognition proceeds against a background of
consciousness. Yet the latter remains poorly characterised. As a result, how cognitive …

Human beings are believed to be the only animals who have superimposed on their natural
evolution an evolution of their own making, thus begetting human history as well as human …

Centuries ago, science discarded all notions of a vital force, although it retained concepts of
invisible physical forces despite frequent objection by strict empiricists. Yet the concept of a …

Neuroscience made major progress in unravelling the neural basis of mental features like
self, consciousness, affect, etc. However, we nevertheless lack what recently has been …

Consider the following: A scientist studying atoms, is a group of atoms studying themselves.
A strange way of looking at reality. To understand, we have to travel through the world of the …