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Consciousness Explained

By: Daniel C. Dennett
Narrated by: Paul Mantell
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Summary

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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Disappointed

I was really looking forward to this book, but ended up being disappointed. There are definitely interesting and enlightening aspects, but it is like walking through treacle to get to them due to the overlong preparatory explanations. An abridged version of around 10 hours listening time that gets quickly to the key concepts would be better.

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As good as it gets

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.

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ambitious and worth it.

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.

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  • 16-02-18

Interesting but long winded

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.

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A complete waste of bytes to download..

A pointless, unscientific rant. Basically, the author tries to put an argument forward that is you don't agree, you are a fool. yet, the argument presented is vapid.

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Surprisingly interesting, surprisingly dull

If brevity is the soul of wit, this is dull AF. If you can stick with it through the verbosity, hubris, and unselfconscious Feynman impressions, it's a genuinely fascinating idea though. It's just wrapped up in 22 hours of jargon that's neither Popular Science, nor a textbook.

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Endless meaninglessness

Words without meaning. The author is less than 1% as smart as he thinks he is.

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Very good content

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

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The audible reviewing system seems rather clunky.

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.

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