Title: CAN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES
Product review: This is another in a long line of works that try to deal with consciousness by dismissing it via some variant of eliminativism (e.g., "mind" is an epiphenomenon of "brain"). In other words, in this book consciousness is virtually ignored--the currently fashionable, pseudo-scientific position. As an antidote, read the works of Raymond Tallis (especially his "The Explicit Animal", and "On the Edge of Certainty"), a British physician who is not only a crack neurologist (he writes textbooks on this subject) but also a savvy philosopher who understands the severe limitations of what he calls the "neurophilosophies" such as the type espoused by Damasio. (Look also at my own "The Unboundaried Self.")
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