Title: the great pretender
Review: The main hypothesis of this book, resting on the fictional "zombie" Gedankenexperiment is so bizarre & naive that it boggles the mind.Can nature evolve a highly functioning zombie? Of course not. What we call consciousness is a direct product of embodiment - an emergent 'functional state' that allows evolved multicellular creatures to navigate their environment. Therefore the book is mainly hot air.Chalmers thinks of a meaningless/pointless "hard problem" and then meanders around through using "look-at-how-clever-I-am" mental gymnastics. In other words, he invents mysteries, or nonsense, or both together. Seriously - unless you are a 'neurophilosopher', i suggest you skip this book because you won;t learn anything.
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