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Being You
- A New Science of Consciousness
- Narrated by: Anil Seth
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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A BOOK OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERG
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.
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? After over twenty years researching the brain, world-renowned neuroscientist Anil Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. His unique theory of what it means to 'be you' challenges our understanding of perception and reality and it turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
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Critic reviews
"Anil Seth thinks clearly and sharply on one of the hardest problems of science and philosophy, cutting through weeds with a scientist's mind and a storyteller's skill." (Adam Rutherford)
"Seth provokes us to think about thinking...readable, relatable and gripping." (Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina)
"Offers a new cause for astonishment and wonder...a must-read for anyone seeking a better understanding of the brain and how nature sculpts the human experience." (Annaka Harris, author of Conscious)
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-04-22
This is a great book I loved it!
I am not a scientist yet Anil Seth made all of the content accessible and relatable. II don't think I will be lecturing on the subject any time soon but I did feel that I got a most excellent overview of the neuroscience of being. loved this book!
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- Natalielal
- 30-09-23
Absolutely fascinating 🤩
Fascinating subject matter and learnt a lot about the human mind and how it works.
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- izzy frost
- 13-09-23
Changed the way I view my mind!
Wow what an incredible book. This has made me look at consciousness and persecution a whole new way. Everyone should read!
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- SteveN
- 13-12-22
Excellent
Do we live in the Matrix?
Do we create our own Matrix?
This book helps us explore these questions and more as a result of decades of research, experiential evidence and of course Anil Seths unique take on it all.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-23
Brilliant
very interesting - even personal experience / insight by the author. also mentions AI and consciuosness. woet a read.
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- Adam Bennett
- 20-10-22
Good book, well read.
Good book, well read by the author. A little hard to follow at times but that's on me haha. Was left a little bit asking 'so what?' in particular given the philosophical exchange he quotes near the start on what it would look like if the sun revolved around the earth. One for me to ponder.
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- Tibor Barton
- 20-11-22
excellent
luckily we made it in history of academia, to not ridicule consciousness research . Excellent work and brilliant ideas from Anil.
thank you
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- MR
- 13-09-21
A mind bending tour - science of consciousness
Seth explains the complex ideas clearly and lucidly, with layer upon layer building an overarching view of a model of consciousness. Seth takes a look at the monolith of the 'hard problem' of how and why the wet living and thinking brain gives rise to the experience of consciousness and proposes a different question, the 'real problem'. How mechanisms in the brain predict and control consciousness. Probing into the stuff of consciousness all is not what it seems and our perceptions are our brains best guess of what is out there beyond it's bony skull.
Some of these ideas are not new to me and resonate with Buddhist teachings that what we believe to be the self is an illusion. Here we have a scientific theory as to why and how the sense of self is created by systems in the brain.
The fascinating ideas in the book are presented in a way that I'm sure the author has simplified for the layperson but it is still sufficiently complex and detailed to be an intellectual challenge for those amongst us that are not philosophers or scientists and there are ample references for further reading on on the matter.
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- S. Hall
- 03-12-21
Just an astounding book.
This is just an astounding book. The first chapter or two were a bit slow but once I realised that this really wasn't a book you could only half listen to and dedicated my attention to it, I was enormously rewarded. Almost every chapter contained moments where you feel your world view is shaken and rearranged. The author takes incredibly hard concepts and allows you to understand them and picture their consequences. I've tried to explain some of this book to friends and family and I can't. It is an incredible skill to make it all make sense.
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- nabil chouba
- 21-07-22
Amazing
Woking on machine learning software
Really liked the book
- the fact that we predict and compare with sensory, this elegant way to implement model our environment
- brain work with best guess and all is prediction where the brain builds whatever we think is good for survival. It’s all hallucination …
- emotion is control way to stabilise the body’s vital system and future survival
- there is no freewill it’s all nonsense
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