Consciousness, "the last great mystery for science," remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion?

Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.

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意识，"科学的最后一个大谜团"，仍然是一个热门话题。一个有形的大脑如何创造我们对世界的体验？是什么创造了我们的身份？我们真的有自由意志吗？意识本身会不会是一种幻觉？

脑科学令人振奋的新发展正在继续关于这些问题的争论，该领域现在已经扩大到包括生物学家、神经科学家、心理学家和哲学家。这本有争议的书澄清了潜在的混乱论点和主要理论，同时也概述了神经科学发现的惊人速度。苏珊-布莱克莫尔涵盖的领域包括：大脑中自我的构建、注意力的机制、意识的神经关联以及意识改变状态的生理学，突出了我们的最新发现。

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