Being you : a new science of consciousness
Title:
Being you : a new science of consciousness
Author:
Seth, Anil K., author.
ISBN:
9781524742874
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- I: Level. The real problem ; Measuring consciousness ; Phi -- II: Content. Perceiving from the inside out ; The wizard of odds ; The beholder's share -- III: Self. Delirium ; Expect yourself ; Being a beast machine ; A fish in water ; Degrees of freedom -- IV: Other. Beyond human ; Machine minds -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
"Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness thanks to new experimental evidence, much of which comes from Seth's own lab. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness."--Provided by publisher.
