Review quotes:

"One cannot intelligently discuss the issues of conscious thought without including this book as part of the conversation…. Klemm methodically takes the reader through a short course in neuroscience, with a focus on the structure of the brain. He then spends the bulk of the book looking at the complex and often confusing issue of consciousness, exploring its role in learning and memory. … Klemm provides a valuable insight that is often ignored or downplayed: the impulses transmitted throughout the nervous system are not made up of electrons, but positive ions. … As a key component of his basic thesis, Klemm introduces the idea of circuit impulse patterns (CIP). This concept more accurately reflects the reality of the linking of neural processes into a complex network than does the focus on a single nerve path and synapse. Neurotransmitters act in a variety of mechanisms depending upon the sum total of all the nerve impulses involved. … By invoking the idea of CIPs, Klemm can then develop a sense of emergence of more complex phenomena from a set of less complex systems that interact." Donald F. Calbreath, New York Review of Books.

"What sets this book apart from others is that the answer he infers provides a framework to allow us to consider how our minds are built and perhaps how they actually work. Klemm gives us a good sense of the nature of consciousness and what it really means to be conscious.  The book is essentially a guide to help us understand ourselves.  And it does this with forethought and inside.  The book is smoothly written with a keen sense of wit and understanding.  Hence, the reader finds familiarity in Klemm's sober message of our true nature." Reviewed by D. Wayne Dworsky, San Francisco Book Review.