How was the brain water became wine of consciousness? When acquired the material qualities of mind? In this penetrating and informative book, Nicholas Humphrey, internationally renowned experimental psychologist, guides the reader on a journey spanning millions of years, looking for the keys so as evolved consciousness. Story of mind, Humphrey proposed a radical new theory. By exploring the division between sensation and perception, shows how raw feelings are at the center of all conscious states: "I feel, therefore I am". He describes how sensory consciousness-our perception about "how to be ourselves" - may have developed from bodily responses of pain and pleasure of our primitive ancestors. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost limbs, to the mysterious power of the "vision blind" (unconscious vision), Humphrey leads us was the intimate mechanisms of our mind and becomes the most difficult issues understandable. Along the way, A History of mind is covering different areas: how our likes and dislikes of colors reflect our evolutionary history; do they have to tell us the Siamese twins on the relationship with our own body; and how the LSD and mescaline expand the experience of "subjective time". The relationship between soul and body is one of the major challenges still posed by science and philosophy. Nicholas Humphrey dares to solve the "mind-body problem ..." and may return to no longer look at ourselves in the same wa