From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds [Paperback]

[The] best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved&A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come.Dennett is always good company&He writes with wit and elegance.This is a book to read and relish and then read again.Readers will find their minds enriched with many powerful thinking tools.If you have not encountered [Dennetts] work, you surely should&very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many thinking tools.&Dennetts book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across.A subtle andinteresting argument.Encyclopedic knowledge of both the history of and the latest thinking in philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science.Brave and bracing. A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work.