The complexities of the human brain and how they give rise to experience are some of the greatest mysteries remaining today. This volume presents transcripts and individual papers stemming from a four-part series "The Emerging Science of Consciousness: Mind, Brain and the Human Experience", sponsored by the Nour Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences. Moderated bySteve Paulson, Executive Producer of Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge panelist experts in science and the humanities discuss cutting-edge research that could change our basic ideas about the nature of consciousness, the mind, and the brain, and provide insight into the age-old quest to live a more meaningful life. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal.