"How does my brain work? Why am I conscious? Where is my memory? Is what I perceive around me reality or just an illusion? We all ask these questions, which we could sum up in a single question: who am I?" "Recent discoveries about the brain allow us to ask such questions more pointedly, hoping to define more clearly the relations of the brain with the mind, of man with his body." "This book is based on numerous discussions with specialists. It attempts to determine the slate of the art. It is organized in chapters that can be read in continuity, but it is equally possible to discover the chapters in a different order."--Jacket.