Arguing that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness, this book attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it tries to explain what they are and what they do, in such a way that anyone may understand. This book is also a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine...