If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surely should . . . very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinking tools.' . . . . Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across.--Adam ZemanA subtle and interesting argument.--Stephen RoseThis is a book to read and relish and then read again.--Michael S. GazzanigaReaders will find their minds enriched with many powerful thinking tools.Encyclopedic knowledge of both the history of and the latest thinking in philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science.--Christopher BehaBrave and bracing.--Oliver MoodyDennett is always good company.... He writes with wit and elegance.--Thomas Nagel[Ties] together 50 years of thinking about where minds come from and how they work.... Dennett has earned his reputation as one of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers, as this subtle, clever book shows.... Immensely instructive and pleasurable."If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surely should ... very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinking tools.' ... Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across.--Adam ZemanDaniel Dennett has written an absolute firecracker of a book, one revisiting in depth and breadth the central theme of his life's work--understanding and explaining how we are conscious.... Dennett's language is wonderfully robust, and reads as if he is carrying on an argument with both himself and the engaged, but somewhat skeptical, reader. The writing is by turns humorous, wry and profound. It is dotted with brilliant phrasing. It is an exhilarating read; this book deserves to be taken deeply seriously as the best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved.... A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come.--Shane O'Mara