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jckl's review
got bored, metanarrative was not sick. more story about animals please
saint_eleanor's review
challenging
informative
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
sheesh
i definitely have more questions than answers and am only starting to grasp how little we actually know about our brains, but this book was so insightful to the ways in which early cell development has contributed to consciousness and what that actually means.
I also was super pleased that the author mentioned Blindsight as that's one of my favorite topics.
I learned so much that I didn't know, like about EEG fields and ephaptic coupling, and that some of the 'mind' of an octopus is in their tentacles!
this book was also really easy to understand and quite beautiful.
i definitely have more questions than answers and am only starting to grasp how little we actually know about our brains, but this book was so insightful to the ways in which early cell development has contributed to consciousness and what that actually means.
I also was super pleased that the author mentioned Blindsight as that's one of my favorite topics.
I learned so much that I didn't know, like about EEG fields and ephaptic coupling, and that some of the 'mind' of an octopus is in their tentacles!
this book was also really easy to understand and quite beautiful.
goofymango's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.25
dracola112's review
4.0
This book was, like, made for me. The philosophical stuff could've been pared back a touch and focused more, but when Smith gets into the biological nitty-gritty it's always fascinating, and the central ideas about how body plan dictates intellect has fully lodged itself in my brain.