About the book
Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett makes a materialist case for how human consciousness arose, holding that consciousness is no more puzzling than gravity. He draws on Charles Darwin and René Descartes, plus ideas from biology and computer science, to argue that a mind able to comprehend could emerge from natural selection, a process with no mind behind it. He also describes competence without comprehension: natural systems can act in sophisticated ways without grasping the reasons. Dennett places a turning point at the human capacity to share memes, habits that do not come from genetic instinct, with language speeding the process. Competition among memes, he argues, yielded thinking tools good enough for people to design memes of their own.
Vinod Khosla named it among his favorites of 2017 and said that, although long, it was worth every page.
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Vinod Khosla (Co-Founder/Sun Microsystem)
Another of my favorites this year. Long but worth every page.
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