Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
by Anil Seth
In Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, brings the findings of neuroscience to bear on one of the hardest problems of philosophy: how we experience consciousness and perceive our own reality. This is likely to be one of the most important books of 2021, so keep an eye out of it: it’s due to be published in the UK at the beginning of September and the US at the beginning of October.
Recommendations from our site
“It’s a book about the nature of consciousness, one of the most intractable problems that human beings have come across. How do we understand how we, as apparently material beings made of flesh and bone—and, in particular, millions of neurones—get to the position of having qualitative experience, through the experience of the world through our senses, reflection and experience? Beautifully written, easy to read, hard to put down. It’s passionate, and it’s not patronising.” Read more...
The Best Philosophy Books of 2021
Nigel Warburton, Philosopher
