The famous neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a new, revolutionary theory about how, in the course of evolution, the human brain turned into the most powerful organic computer that has no analogues within the known universe. Nicolelis makes the first attempt to explain the entire history of mankind, its culture and civilization on the basis of a number of recently discovered key principles of the functioning of the brain. This new cosmology centers around three fundamental properties of the human brain: its ability to adapt and learn, the ability to allow multiple people to synchronize their thoughts around a task, goal, or belief, and an unparalleled ability to create abstractions.
Combining knowledge from fields as diverse as neuroscience, mathematics, evolution, computer science, physics, history, art and philosophy, Nicolelis writes a manifesto for the uniqueness of the human mind.
