Book of Stephen Пинкера, prominent scientist specialized in experimental psychology and когнитивных sciences, in an enthralling and accessible form examines, what factors affect consciousness of man, as an intellect of the grown man is formed and what he differs from a child, what the human thinking differs from thinking of animals in general and primacies in particular, features of artificial reason.Пинкер supports an idea about complex human nature consisting of great number of adaptive capabilities of reason. He considers that human consciousness works partly through combinatorics manipulation symbols.