A summation of research on the structure and function of the brain presents new ideas on how the human mind evolved in adaptation to a world that no longer exists.

Scientists from diverse disciplines explore the origins, nature, and processes of both the intuitive and intellectual modes of human awareness.

The world we touch, see and hear is not the "real" world -- How the mind transforms the world : the life of the mind -- The time to create the mind's reality -- Priming consciousness -- Mixing and remixing the elements of experience -- The mind plays its little shell games -- A change of pace for a change of mind.