About the book: 2012 / Is it possible to overcome the finitude of a person’s physical existence, preserve his knowledge, spiritual and intellectual world? How does Professor Dowell’s head feel? What is our consciousness and does it influence “objective reality”? Alexander Nikonov, a firm and consistent materialist, atheist and pragmatist, explores humanity’s eternal dream of immortality. Relying, as usual, on extensive factual material, the author plays a classic four-move chess game with the problem of the frailty of our earthly life. The grandmaster is assisted by great physicists, famous doctors, psychologists, sociologists, participants and witnesses of various incredible events and phenomena, as well as such an authority as Carlos Castaneda. The outcome of the game, of course, is predetermined. But how exciting the game is!