This book was not an easy read, Ismael is painstaking in her analysis of what consciousness is, how it comes to be, and why it means free will exists.

Dry, but informative. I am convinced. I will switch my multi-decades long opinion about the deterministic universe. I am now sure that we do, in fact, have a choice. That free will exists. That we are all masters of our fate, captains of our soul.

Not sure if I'm happy about it though.