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Why not make this a book review? There are plenty of others in Wikipedia. I own this book, but haven't read it yet. I'd be happy to share if someone else will take the lead. DCDuring 23:59, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We editors cannot review the book although we can summarise it. I have removed the following, which is editorializing, and unsourced.

This is not so much due to the novelty of the ideas posited in the book — for instance the ideas of Michael Tomasello are similar and in many respects more detailed — but due to the connections made between various disciplines. Like the famous book Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett,

Slrubenstein | Talk 15:37, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]