While we imagine ourselves to be the masters of life, an organ lives and operates right inside and separately from us, which forms hopes, plans, fears, desires, instincts. It constructs the behavior and physical condition of the whole organism. This is the control center that directs all the work, collecting data through small portals in the armored bunker of the skull.In this exciting book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman uncovers the mechanisms of the incomprehensible workings of the human brain. Get ready to learn something that will forever change the way you look at yourself, your actions and the world that surrounds you.Published in Russian for the first time.