Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. Clear, engaging and thought-provoking.' - Nature Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. 'An ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind.

At the same time, he suggests that the brain works as a storyteller-creating a narrative that allows us to navigate and make sense of a world that it is busy constructing for us'-īook Synopsis From the renowned neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Incognito comes the companion volume to the international PBS series about how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life. How does a three pound mass of biological matter locked in the dark, silent fortress of the skull produce the extraordinary multi-sensory experience that comprises us, while also constructing reality and guiding us through the endless need to make decisions and determine our judgments and into a future that we are convinced we are shaping? David Eagleman compares the brain to a cityscape with different neighborhoods where neural networks vie for supremacy and determine our behavior in ways we are not always aware or in control of.

About the Book 'The dramatic story of the brain's role in creating our world, our experience of it, and ourselves the basis for a PBS television series by the bestselling David Eagleman.

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