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František Koukolík's book is intended for a wider circle of readers. This is what its unconventional, somewhat symbolic title for strict science suggests. It is a collection of fifty small reflections inspired by essays and articles from major international journal sources. It conveys in an accessible form even the more difficult knowledge about the human brain, about the relationship between brain and mind, consciousness and self-awareness, and also findings that tell about the not easily and precisely separable boundary between man and other living creatures, between man and the neuronal volume of even the lowest animals. It places man in the whole of the evolution of nature and the evolution of the cosmos.