# Consciousness Explained **Opening (not a real abstract):** "His sophisticated discourse is as savvy and articulate about good beer or the Boston Celtics as it is about parallel processing, modern cognitive experimentation, neuropathology, A persuasive echolocation by bats, or Ludwig Wittgenstein. philosophical work, the best examined in this column for Skeptics, supporters, and the undecided should decades. proceed at once to find and read this good-humored, imaginative, richly instructive . **Authors:** [[Dennett]]