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From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett
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it was ok

Way too much "I/Me"; the author obviously likes to "hear" himself write. Frequently incomprehensibly didactic, and purposefully pedantic. Sample sentence: "We won't have a complete science of consciousness until we can align our manifest-image identifications of mental states by their contents with scientific-image identifications of the subpersonal information structures and events that are causally responsible for generating the details of the user-illusion we take ourselves to operate in." Riiiiiight.
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February 22, 2017 – Shelved
February 22, 2017 – Shelved as: to-read
March 12, 2017 – Started Reading
March 13, 2017 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Jim (new)

Jim Dennett explains the terms (manifest image vs. scientific image, user illusion, etc.) in that sentence -- which is not "typical", but rather a keystone.


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