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Book Synopsis"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —
NatureTrade Review"[The] best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved…A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come." -- Shane O’Mara - Times Higher Education
"Dennett is always good company…He writes with wit and elegance." -- Thomas Nagel - New York Review of Books
"This is a book to read and relish and then read again." -- Michael S. Gazzaniga - Wall Street Journal
"Readers will find their minds enriched with many powerful thinking tools." -- Economist
"If you have not encountered [Dennett’s] work, you surely should…very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many ‘thinking tools.’…Dennett’s book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across." -- Adam Zeman - Standpoint
"A subtle and interesting argument." -- Stephen Rose - Guardian
"Encyclopedic knowledge of both the history of and the latest thinking in philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science." -- Christopher Beha - Harper's
"Brave and bracing." -- Oliver Moody - The Times
