"Consciousness is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all."
-Vladmiri Nabokov, Bend Sinister (1947)
"The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside."
-Emily Dickinson (ca. 1862)
From the opening page of book I just started,
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene