Sebastian Sung is a brilliantly lucid writer. His analogies are clear; his ideas, interesting. Sadly his medical materialism taints the whole meal. According to Sung, there is no soul. Or anything else which can't be physically measured.

Most notably missing are any references to emergent properties. Nor does he refer to the idea that the knowable real world is based on naturally occurring fractal patterns, rather than on logically linear patterns. Worse yet, nowhere does he mention the idea that the only way to make real world measurements is with tipping-point based math. To Sung, simple counting math is enough.

Why give this book four stars then? Sung's explanations are amazingly clear. For this alone, this book should be required reading for anyone interested in neuro anatomy.

What about the fact that Sung believes the non material aspects of life all reduce to neurons?
Well, geniuses are allowed their biases. And Sung is truly a genius. Steven Paglierani