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Being you : a new science of consciousness / Anil Seth

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Dutton Books, c2021Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781524742874
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF 311 .S48 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness that's to new experimental evidence, much of white 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.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Master of Science in Psychology GC BF 311 .S48 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000019063

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness that's to new experimental evidence, much of white 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.

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