The title would indicate that one might get closer to truth by reading the book. Well, too many cooks spoil the broth. All the good that can be taken from this book must be sifted from all the bad and all the neutral and all the filler that I really could have done without. All and all it is a philosophical book. Had I known this I would have never bought it. Robert Kuhn is an excellent writer and a foremost expert on the human brain. Had I known he was going to sub-contract his thought patterns to the pack of academics, I would certainly have passed up this book.