Steve Ely

They each dig their own tunnels.

I enjoyed the clashing conclusions of the reviews for Thomas Metzinger’s The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self on its Amazon page.  While Library Journal says “Metzinger’s intended audience is the lay reader, and he does a superb job of presenting his theory and introducing philosophical issues related to consciousness,” Publishers Weekly insists that the “prose [is] accessible mainly to those schooled in philosophy and science” and “most readers will have difficulty penetrating Metzinger’s ideas.”

Likewise, Booklist calls it “groundbreaking,” while Publishers Weekly says instead that Metzinger offers “little that is genuinely new.”

It’s as if the reviewers are reading different books altogether.  Apparently the Ego Tunnel is subjective to each person.   Hmmm….did Metzinger rig these reviews to prove a point?