In consciousness and the social brain princeton neuroscientist michael graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all the human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent this social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. In consciousness and the social brain princeton neuroscientist michael graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all the human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. What is consciousness and how can a brain a mere collection of neurons create it in consciousness and the social brain princeton neuroscientist michael graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all the human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent this social machinery has only just begun to be studied in . The theory seeks to explain how an information processing machine such as the brain can insist it has consciousness describe consciousness in the magicalist ways that people often do assign a high degree of confidence to those assertions and attribute a similar property of consciousness to others in a social context ast is about how the