Being you : a new science of consciousness
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780571337712
- 9780571337705
- 0571337708
- 0571337716
- BF311 .S48 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index.
Prologue -- I: Level. 1. The real problem -- 2. Measuring consciousness -- 3. Phi -- II: Content. 4. Perceiving from the inside out -- 5. The wizard of odds -- 6. The beholder's share -- III: Self. 7. Delirium -- 8. Expect yourself -- 9. Being a beast machine -- 10. A fish in water -- 11. Degrees of freedom -- IV: Other. 12. Beyond human -- 13. Machine minds -- Epilogue.
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. 'A brilliant beast of a book. Seth proposes to explain not just what and how we are, but why we are the way we are.-- Provided by publisher.