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    <body><![CDATA[Concentrates too much on 'its' for my liking, I would have liked to read more about the experience of conciousness.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really ewnjoyed this book.  It's a very good and creative way of presenting the viewpoints of various different writers/philosophers/neuroscientists, etc. in an informal, conversational way.  THey're all asked the same basic questions, so it makes it easy to see where each person stands on the cor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4854632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic!  Good picks for the essays in this book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting topics but could be better laid out. One of the problems with the field is no one agrees with anyone else and she talks with people who reference others that she covers afterwards. Good book if you want to see the various theories]]></body>
    
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