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This is bursting with insight.' Publishers Weeklyĭespite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain.

Nineteen ways of looking at consciousness