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# From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

**Brand:** daniel c. dennett
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    Misleading Title
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2018*

The book is well written and it's very interesting read.  I found however that the book dealt very little with actually the evolution of minds and consciousness.  Half, if not more of the book is paraphrasing Richard Dawkins's material found in his books: The Selfish Gene and the Blind Watchmaker or otherwise Pedro Domingo's Master Algorithm.  There's some insight onto consciousness and evolution but treated very superficially, his ideas should be elaborated more and have a wider set of examples and cover a more significant part of the book,  instead he created  a literature review of theory related to natural evolution, language evolution and machine learning but not a coherent argument for his theory of "The evolution of minds" as the titled alluded.

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    Difficult read
  

*by J***U on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 December 2020*

As a curious reader, I can responsibly say this book was not written for the general public. Make no mistake, there must be life-changing insights throughout the book, as apparently this is some kind of a thesis built on the author’s life-long quest on the topic. The problem is, for someone not in the field of linguistic or biological philology (I made these terms up but you know what I mean), it’s just not a very enjoyable or rewarding experience reading pages and pages of:“Perhaps somewhat in response to this criticism, Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2000b) dramatically revised his theory and has since defended the minimalist program, which discards all the innate mechanisms and constraints of his earlier vision and proposes that all the work they were designed to do could be accomplished by just one logical operator, called Merge. “ (p. 277)The truth is, at least half of the time I felt like reading some journal article, which demands full attention on each and every word in print, and perhaps a little research into those you don’t understand after a second reading. But how many of the even intellectually curious readers care to do such things at 9pm after a day’s work? Again, I’m only speaking for (lazy) people like myself.

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    The Payoff for Learning Dennettish
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2020*

I've been putting off reading Dennett for years.  I'm glad to have finished this valuable but frustrating book.Like:  Good summary of Dennett's views and related literature.  Some powerful ideas - I particularly liked the proposal that our brains do a recursive loop to construct an image of reality, the image we are conscious of, in the form of things with abstract properties, by projecting expectations of expectations.Frustrations:  I found Dennett's style to be really hard going.  There's not much hand holding.  Who he's writing for oscillates.  He doesn't do simple summaries ('for nine year olds') to keep you on board.  There isn't a glossary and hardly any graphics.  He expects you to learn to speak his abstract language of 'discriminations' and 'affordances' instead of using more common terms.  The good thing is that there was a payoff.

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