by Anil Seth (Author)

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek;A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian;A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times;A Best Philosophy Book of 2021—Five Books; A Best Book of 2021—The Economist

"Exhilarating... a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text." —The Guardian

Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.

Consciousness is the great unsolved mystery in our scientific understanding of the brain. Somewhere, somehow, inscribed in the brain is everything that makes you you. But how do we grasp what happens in the brain to turn mere electrical impulses into the vast range of perceptions, thoughts and emotions we feel from moment to moment?

Anil Seth, one of Britain's leading neuroscientists, charts the developments in our understanding of consciousness, revealing radical interdisciplinary breakthroughs that must transform the way we think about the self.

Drawing on his original research and collaborations with cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, brain imagers, virtual reality wizards, mathematicians and philosophers, he puts forward an exhilarating new theory about how we experience the world that should encourage us to view ourselves as less apart from and more a part of the rest of nature.

Seth's revolutionary framework for consciousness will turn what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.

Review

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“Being You is an engaging and accessible tour through the field’s boldest theories, most creative experiments and most surprising findings. You could give the book to a smart teenager and get them asking questions that they will be thinking about for the rest of their lives.”—Current Biology

“[Seth] tells us about the Japanese roboticist who builds ‘Geminoids’—robots as similar to human beings as possible, including one resembling himself, which delivered a 45-minute lecture to a large audience of students. It is a brilliant book…”—Claire Tomalin, New York Times Book Review

“Seth makes a convincing case that perception masquerades as conscious reality… Fluent and accessible.”—Financial Times

“Drawing on philosophy, biology, cognitive science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, he argues that our brains are prediction machines that constantly invent our world and then correct our mistakes, so that our sense of self derives from our body.”—Nature
 
“Imaginative and compelling…”—Scientific American

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Categories : Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08W2J9WWD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dutton (October 19, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File‏ : EPUB, 2.67 MB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages