An amazing approach to the world of the brain and how the history and future of our species are recorded in it, by the author of Incognito.

After unraveling "the secret lives of the brain" in his previous book, Incognito, David Eagleman, one of today's most renowned neuroscientists, surprises us again with this new exploration of the science of the brain, that strange computational matter that lies within. of our skull and which constitutes the perceptive machinery through which we move through the world, from which decisions arise, the material from which the imagination is forged. Because the truth is that understanding the brain better means shedding light on what we consider most real in our personal relationships and what we consider necessary in our social politics: how we fight, how we love, what we accept as true, how we should educate, how we can develop better social policy and how to design our bodies for centuries to come. The history and future of our species is recorded in the microscopically small circuits of the brain.

With his brilliant and provocative prose, Eagleman takes over from Oliver Sacks and leads us to reflect on who we are, what reality is, who controls our decisions, to what extent we need others and how science can help us overcome difficulties. limitations of our own body. The pages of this book will make us rethink all our assumptions, since its aim is to bridge the abyss between academic literature and the lives we lead as possessors of a brain.

Among the infinitely dense tangle of billions of brain cells and their billions of connections, we will be able to glimpse and discover something that perhaps we did not expect to see: ourselves, a species that is just beginning to discover the tools to model his own destiny.

"David Eagleman's comprehensive summary of the current state of knowledge about the brain is concise, accessible, and often very surprising. There's a strange new world inside your head" (Brian Eno).

«An amazing read. On every page there is a revelation so fantastic as to take your breath away. “Eagleman comes closer than anyone to solving the mystery of how to find the self in the electric gray mush between our ears” (Stephen Fry).

"Eagleman aims to do with neuroscience what Carl Sagan did with astrophysics... and he succeeds" (Texas Monthly).

"Entertaining and profound: addictive neuroscience from a little genius" (The Guardian).

«Eagleman is a brilliant neuroscientist, a best-selling author and a man of enormous insight. The brain is an accessible and fascinating handbook of the latest in neuroscience” (The Sunday Times).

"The rock star of neuroscience" (The Telegraph).