Pff, finally finished this. While I appreciate the work behind this book, some passages were very off-putting and caused me to zone out any time I was reading it.

I think my main dislike is that it didn't live up to my expectations. There wasn't really an answer as to what consciousness is, because we simply don't know. So, understandably, there was a lot of musing on the subject of philosophy and biology in this book (the author is also a philosopher himself). Somehow, this made it read like a textbook.