Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

"Astounding and convincing . . . A book that should be read by everyone who thinks about thinking." —Oliver Sacks, neurologist and bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of conscio...