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46
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47/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
March 8, 2022
Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasingly intelligent minds, from microbes to humankind--and beyond.
What The Reviewers Say
... a jarring accomplishment. It’s a heroic attempt to explicate the essential nature of thinking that overturns assumptions, pricks human pride, and maybe even puts a scare into the reader. It’s also an energetic exposition that begins as a biology lesson and winds up offering an evolutionary argument for kindness. It will almost surely change your mind about the mind..
The narrative is enjoyable and illuminating, but it is flawed by a failure to separate fact from speculation.
... fascinating.
The authors are at their strongest in breaking down early life-form growths and adaptations, but their conclusions that humans have developed a society-wide supermind, and that mathematics has 'opened a gateway to another universe' are less convincing. Still, it’s an original take on the nature of consciousness that gives readers plenty to think about..
