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Actually quite interesting; not as dry as I feared it might be after reading some of the other reviews. Definitely helps that I have an understanding of the Natural Language Processing techniques used to make the claims in the book, as others who aren't familiar seem to be more skeptical about taking the indications of the study results at face value (understandably).

Chock full of great explanations.

Such a bittersweet conclusion

This book is a great survey of the implications of the computational theory of mind.

Big book. Previously had read only the abridged version.

Lots of good thought provoking essays. Lots of psychologists, which I like.

Naomi Eisenberger's essay on the science of rejection was intriguing, particularly the finding that painkillers like Tylenol will also lessen the essentially physical pain of social rejection.

Some good, some ok, all round interesting so far. Liking the multiple narrators for the audiobook.

Good, not great. A bit more superficial (accessible) than I was hoping for personally, and many of the ideas herein will be familiar to fans of brain science or avid science readers. Seung spends some time on the interesting future scenarios of cyber immortality, but it comes with the usual speculation and caveats. Writing style is smart but not always fluid and maybe too conversational for the harder science.