The Brain, Language and Consciousness. The Cheshire Cat Smile of Schrödinger

Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernihovskaya is a world-renowned specialist in the field of cognitive science - a professor, Director of the Institute of Cognitive Studies at St. Petersburg State University, head of the Department of Problems of the Convergence of Natural and Human Sciences at St. Petersburg State University, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education. A science popularizer in print and electronic media, participant and host of numerous popular science TV shows and films. Her book is a series of cognitive studies that began with sensory physiology and gradually transitioned into the fields of neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, semiotics, and philosophy.
The author considers language as an interface between the brain, consciousness, and the world, reflecting the author's position and perspective on the evolution and nature of verbal language and other higher functions, their phylo- and ontogenesis, the genetic and cross-cultural aspects of consciousness and language development and their brain correlates, as well as the possibilities of interspecies communication and modeling human cognitive processes.
The book is aimed at the intellectual reader interested in the nature of humanity and its place in the world.