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

A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work.  [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.