Stanislas Dean made a breakthrough in understanding how our consciousness is organized in our brain and how, by looking at a map of neuronal activity, we can “read” a person’s thoughts and “see” his images. Stanislas Dean introduces the concept of a “global neural workspace” and explains how neurons, by communicating with each other, give us the ability to be aware of this world, think, feel, dream. This research provides a new understanding of what it means to be conscious and unconscious, how what we are not aware of motivates us to act, how the brain decides which stimuli to allow into consciousness and which not. Stanislas Dean draws on amazing research conducted in the world's leading laboratories. These are studies of visual illusions, speech stimuli, patients in a coma, in a vegetative state, patients with various brain lesions, in a state of sleep, under anesthesia. And reveals neural markers that indicate a conscious brain. About the unique human consciousness.