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This title is printed in full color throughoutFrom one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any othermdashas told by Galileo who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as wellGalileorsquos journey has three parts each with a different guide In the first accompanied by a scientist who resembles Francis Crick he learns why certain parts of the brain are important and not others and why consciousness fades with sleep In the second part when his companion seems to be named Alturi Galileo is hard of hearing his companionrsquos name is actually Alan Turing he sees how the facts assembled in the first part can be unified and understood through a scientific theorymdasha theory that links consciousness to the notion of integrated information also known as phi In the third part accompanied by a bearded man who can only be Charles Darwin he meditates on how consciousness is an evolving developing ever-deepening awareness of ourselves in history and culturemdashthat it is everything we have and everything we areNot since Goumldel Escher Bach has there been a book that interweaves science art and the imagination with such originality This beautiful and arresting narrative will transform the way we think of ourselves and the world.