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After coming across Mr. Noë's video on youtube (), I was intrigued and decided to follow up on his position that consciousness is something that "happens outside the brain."

What a waste. To read this book is to observe an author attack a straw man with a piece of straw.

Mr. Noë argues against the "brain-centric" approach taken up by contemporary neuroscientists toward the understanding of consciousness. The funny thing is that modern neuroscience is not "brain-centric" as a field; it's an interdisciplinary field that has many overlapping topics, branches and sub-specialties.

Mr. Noë is a philosopher who is out of touch of the great diversity and ongoing developments (and promises) of neuroscience. It is disappointing to influence the general public to believe that contemporary neuroscientists pursue brain-centric / brain ONLY approach to understanding consciousness. Clearly the brain has been and will always be a responsive and dynamic part of the body that creates consciousness through its sensing, perception and engagement with the environment (through the body).

We can throw out the dualism of Descartes. We can stomp out dangerous wrong ideas about how to understand and learn from the field of neuroscience (i.e. that the brain doesn't change, that consciousness is separate from the body or that neuroscience is a brain-centric field). These are understandings through science that build toward the future. Not this book.