Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio
Published 2021 · 224 pages · 61,600 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious to read?
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Neuroscientific vocabulary, glossed.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Short chapters, clear sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Consciousness treated at high abstraction.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- A distillation, so compressed rather than exhaustive.
How Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious is regarded
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious holds a literary regard score of 48 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.