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The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness Review

Too wordy and disjointed. Too complicated. That's complicated, not complex. I can handle complex. Douglas Hofstadter talks about complex things, but I can understand him. I can remember what he wrote. And if I can understand Hofstadter, I must have SOME reading abilities. But this book of Calvin's I found forgettable, because his sentences and paragraphs and topics wander too much. And I like this stuff, the topic, that is. I eat this stuff up, books about consciousness and neuropsychology and psychology in general. But this... I read a few years ago, found it slippery at the time, and can barely remember what I got out of it. Here's a sample: "Consciousness is a very overused word, the same string of syllables being used to designate a multitide of meanings. It's much worse than the multiple meanings of brain, which, besides denoting the three pounds of nerve cells inside our heads, is also used as a verb (to club, aiming at a head), as the opposite of brawn, as a surname in England, as a term for a studious student or the chief planner of an enterprise, and more recently to designate something as inanimate as a computer. Being a neurophsyiologist, I tend to avoid the nonneurological uses of the word [WHICH ONE?], but I doubt that I'll convert the rest of the Englsih-speaking world to my more restrictive usage" (p.75).
And trust me, it gets worse in the next few sentences. Redundant. 90% of that first sentence above is tangent. By the time I get to the end I don't remember what the subject was. This guy likes to hear himself talk. I don't mean that personally, maybe he's a great guy, I don't know, but I think he needs some help with the writing style. And it wouldn't be so bad if he eventually got to some point about consciousness or psychology, but sometimes I can't find why all that tangent was there.
I can't (or won't) critique what the book is about; I think the writing style overrides it. (The type it's set in didn't help, either. Sounds like quibbling but it's true. Somehow it added to the muddiness. Too squished, maybe. I think the quoted sentence reads more clearly as I've typed it here than when one reads it on paper in the book.)

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