Being You
By Anil Seth
- Genre
- Psychology, Philosophy & Personal Development
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber (UK)
- Publication year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9780571337705
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness is a work of popular science by the neuroscientist Anil Seth, first published by Faber & Faber in September 2021. It presents consciousness as a brain-generated 'controlled hallucination.' A Sunday Times bestseller, it was a science book of the year for...
What is consciousness, and why does it feel like something to be you? Anil Seth's Being You offers one of the most compelling recent answers, grounded not in mysticism but in neuroscience. The Sussex professor argues that our experience of the world and of ourselves is a kind of 'controlled hallucination' - the brain's best guess, continuously updated by prediction, rather than a transparent window onto reality. From the sense of a unified self to the feeling of free will, Seth shows how much of experience is actively constructed. intendle recommends it for readers drawn to the deepest question in science, explained with clarity, rigor and a poet's touch. A Sunday Times bestseller and a science book of the year for the Financial Times and The Guardian, it makes cutting-edge theory genuinely gripping. You will finish it looking at your own mind - and the color of a wall - with new suspicion and wonder.