Being You (by Anil Seth) Book Review

The new book Being You (https://www.anilseth.com/being-you/) by Anil Seth is out and is personally the best book on consciousness that I have read. Here is what the neuroscientist David Eagleman had to say about it “On the one hand we find joy, love, light. On the other we find billions of tiny cells interacting in the dark. How are these related? Few people are as well positioned as Anil Seth to tackle the question of consciousness. Beautifully written, crystal clear, deeply insightful.”

So in the meetup we can discuss the ideas presented in the book including the theory that consciousness is a controlled hallucination implemented by predictive processing. He also describes the self as being simply a part of the contents of consciousness.

If you want the reader digest version you can find it here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/25/being-you-by-professor-anil-seth-review-the-exhilarating-new-science-of-consciousness