Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

By Anil Seth

Summary

"Controlled hallucination" framework: perception is the brain's best controlled hallucination, constrained by sensory data. Consciousness is the experience of being a self — a perception constructed from interoceptive (body-feeling) predictions as much as exteroceptive sensations.

Why It Matters

The most engaging, accessible neuroscience-of-consciousness book for the general reader. Excellent for Prashant's entry into the neuro-science of consciousness.

Notes

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