If you're a hardcore philosopher who enjoys reading academic books about the subject, you'll give this 5 stars.
The layman will find this 342-page book too highbrow.

Mark Taylor is an 80-year-old Harvard philosopher, who has taught courses on religion at Williams College and Columbia.
I majored in Religion at Amherst College and got my masters from Harvard, so I can understand his background.

He owns and has read 8,500 books in New York.

This book may be his final opus, where he assembles a lifetime of work and thought.

He talks about Kant, quantum mechanics, Bohr, Nietzsche, Hegel, co-emergence, co-dependence, quantum entanglement, human genomes, antigens, antibodies, plant intelligence, and more.
The book is disjointed.

Simple graphics and diagrams attempt to illustrate what the words try to say.
None of it is clear.
You'll be wishing Professor Taylor would talk you through some of his illustrations because they are confusing.

He concludes that humans will merge with tech in a symbiotic relationship.
Neuroprosthetics, biobots, synthetic biology, and organic-relational AI are in our future, according to Taylor.

The book's final 50 pages are fascinating and readable because he spends less time philosophizing and more time talking about technological innovations.

It's an OK book, but not a great one. Hence, 3 stars.

After Human is a multidisciplinary book on the interrelationality of life. Taylor’s expertise and vast knowledge is oozing from the pages. I am very grateful for how this book makes certain theories and philosophers’ work more approachable and accessible.
On the other hand, I had a difficult time connecting with the personal elements and tone in this book, and the main arguments were lost to me at times. I am willing to give some chapters another read, though this book is best suited for those already familiar with Taylor’s lectures and writing.
In my honest opinion, the highlights were when Taylor was drawing arguments via Hegel and Kierkegaard.

Normally a dystopian fiction reader, I saw this come up and grabbed it without thinking. Although a non fic, the content was great and very thought provoking, I liked the premise and ideas that the book conveys. I thought it was well sectioned and have recommended to those in my book club who read apocalyptic and dystopian fic as although a non fic book I feel it will be interesting to them as it is to me

I'm a philosophy student, so I'm used to reading very dense articles and papers written by philosophers and professors, and this was a nice break because it was such an enjoyable read! Taylor makes the material exciting and digestible in a way that makes you want to keep reading! Even if you're new to philosophy you should read this book, it is a great entry-level book to get into the subject and I couldn't recommend it enough.