"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.
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ISBN:9781524742874
ISBN:1524742872
ISBN:9781524742881
Physical Description:print 340 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Publisher:[New York, New York] :Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,[2021]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
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