Let me clarify. I'm not just a former neuroscientist; my field was consciousness and perception. Rightly or wrongly (as you may believe), nobody in the field is

Let me clarify. I'm not just a former neuroscientist; my field was consciousness and perception. Rightly or wrongly (as you may believe), nobody in the field is reading Hawkins. What we do see a lot of, are people getting enamored of consciousness and dipping their toes in. For all I know Hawkins is an unheard-of genius, but his stuff reads like many of the dilettantes I've already seen.