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Being You audiobook
- By: Anil Seth
- Narrator: Anil Seth
- Category: Cognitive Science, Science
- Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Being You Audiobook Summary
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Being You is an exhilarating book: a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text.” —The Guardian
Anil Seth’s quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science.
What does it mean to “be you”—that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the nature of consciousness to be a primarily spiritual or philosophical inquiry, but scientific research is now mapping out compelling biological theories and explanations for consciousness and selfhood.
Now, internationally renowned neuroscience professor, researcher, and author Anil Seth is offers a window into our consciousness in BEING YOU: A New Science of Consciousness. Anil Seth is both a leading expert on the neuroscience of consciousness and one of most prominent spokespeople for this relatively new field of science. 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.
Seth has been interviewed for documentaries aired on the BBC, Netflix, and Amazon and podcasts by Sam Harris, Russell Brand, and Chris Anderson, and his 2017 TED Talk on the topic has been viewed over 11 million times, a testament to his uncanny ability to make unimaginably complex science accessible and entertaining.
* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of charts and illustrations from the book.
Cover photograph of iris courtesy of Eyemazy.
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Being You Full Details
| Narrator | Anil Seth |
| Length | 9 hours 46 minutes |
| Author | Anil Seth |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593211212 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Being You is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: biology, science books for adults, self, neurology, memory, neuropsychology, brain science, futurism, cognitive neuroscience, psychedelics, cognitive psychology, psychology book, neuroscience books, neuroplasticity, brain book, brain books, philosophy, mental health, psychology, cognitive science, science gifts for adults, mental health books, consciousness, brain, science books, science book, science gifts, science, psychology books, neuroscience, seth, being, being you, emotional, human nature, health, happiness, Science, Cognitive Science, Science, Life Sciences, Neuroscience The BISAC Subject Code is Cognitive Science, Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Being You is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593211212.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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