Fascinating and wide-ranging ... Not everyone will share her optimism, but her thought-provoking book is a rewarding delve into the mysteries of time and consciousness.
Marchant is not a scientist or a philosopher, so her account cannot have the depth of a specialist, but she succeeds in presenting the vast landscape of the current discussions and the complexity of the problems.
Things get a bit confused ... Marchant speaks of the brain’s need to make inferences ... Her attempt to link the mutually contradictory theories of enactivism, integrated information theory, and predictive coding into a 'unifying framework' is ultimately incoherent. Still, this ambitious and beautifully written book gestures at something truly profound: a new view of science in which 'nothing is set in stone: we have a say in what the universe is and where it goes' ... An enlightening if stumbling attempt to grasp the slippery instant where mind and universe collide.
