Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Mind and Consciousness

Today technologies are developing at a rapid pace. Thanks to scientific progress, we know more and more about the world and about ourselves. The most enticing and promising frontiers of 21st-century science reveal astonishing models of the real and the possible that cannot be explained in purely materialistic terms. At the same time, we acquire entirely new tools with which we can explore the nature of the relationship between our mind—our consciousness, our “self”—and our brain. So what is known today about the connection between mind and brain? Is there still room in the modern world for spiritual reality, mysticism, and mystery?