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Consciousness Explained

By: Daniel C. Dennett
Narrated by: Paul Mantell
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The national bestseller chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 1991 is now available as an audiobook. The author of Brainstorms, Daniel C. Dennett replaces our traditional vision of consciousness with a new model based on a wealth of fact and theory from the latest scientific research.

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I was asked to write a review a couple of minutes before the end of the book, which is a little annoying. And then when the book finished my reviewing was interrupted and what I had written discarded, and I was again asked to enter a review. Not ideal.

The audible reviewing system seems rather clunky.

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Not sure it really needed to be so long winded to get the points across.

It was interesting and also good mental exercise to follow all the examples and arguments.

I found that the author came across as quite arrogant, not helped by the style of narration. This was a bit off-putting as it seemed to be more about the author being clever and right than about explaining consciousness.

Interesting but long winded

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It gives a very good introduction and detail explanation of the matter, including author’s research. Also it explains in detail other theories.

Very good content

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Excellent theory, brilliant analogies and examples, all beautifully delivered by a competent voice actor.
To me this is a classic, the one against which I now judge other books.
I've listened to it twice already and will definitely do so again.

As good as it gets

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this is just about the most ambitious book title you will come across and although some of the metaphors invoked are probably rightly not in mainstream use, he is nonetheless in my opinion the most full of clarity on the difficult scientific , psychological and philosophical concepts that anyone interested in consciousness has to come up against.

ambitious and worth it.

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