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While at the best amateurish, slightly below average, though not altogether without worth popular science, at the worst this book comes across as nothing less deserving of contempt than a psuedo-scientific self-help book.
The premise set out - the authors chosen take on how quantum phenomena allow the brain to act with free will - does not at first seem at all ridiculous, and is in my opinion just as plausible as ideas in more widely read books on quantum brain theory. This theory revolves around coherence between particles in the brain in a Frohlich style Bose-Einstein condensate, manifest in the cell membranes of neurons, (which she amusingly calls cell walls), allowing quantum effects to be magnified to the macroscopic scale. This isn't completely accepted science, that this effect does happen to produce large scale coherence in our brain, but throughout the book she speaks about it as if it was universally accepted, like the heliocentric model of the solar system. In addition to this, she goes to no length to provide the reader with evidence for this theory, and treats it like sound doctrine. Even if we were to accept this theory, which there is not sufficient evidence for us to do, we would not be justified in extrapolating from it all the conclusions which she does. Several large and risible errors are made throughout the book; degrees of consciousness being endowed by the author upon all organisms possessing the ability to create the Frohlich type condenstate, including the amoeba and lower creatures, and almost as implausible, coherence at a distance between the system in one persons head and the head of another person, be they miles away or not, which she bases such contrived and sentimental gems of philosophic fantasy as “quantum intimacy” or “quantum relationships” between people.
To give this book a veneer of learning is the peppering throughout of the passages with references literary and scientific, and she does find some nice bits to use, but what dispels the high illusion is that when the references are not misinterpreted by her, they are half the time either not relevant to her point or seemingly put in for decoration. This book certainly is not one for the non-scientist, for while they would be able to understand it perfectly, they would not be up to the job of dodging the nonsense, and would get quite the wrong impression of reality all-together. For the scientist even this book should still be handled with care, there are some good bits towards the start, but it soon degenerates into science fiction, which not only is understandably is not to everyones palate, but also indistinguishable from truth to the less informed. ( )

This book helped me learn to view the world in multiple ways simultaneously. It is not an easy book, and not for those who do not want to take the time to think and learn. I used this book when I was writing my thesis on poetry. ( )