Anil Seth | Faber/Dutton, 2021 | Book
Seth sets out his groundbreaking new theory of consciousness and self, drawing on more than 20 years of research. His radical argument is that we do not perceive things as they are, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world, and that we experience the world — and the self — with, through and because of our living bodies.
Dan Falk | Quanta, 2021 | Article
How does consciousness arise in mere flesh and blood? To the neuroscientist Anil Seth, our organic bodies are the key to the experience.
Ian Cheney | Science Sandbox/Motherboard, 2018 | Watch
The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity's biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know?
Daniel Dennett | Back Bay Books, 1992 | Book
A classic text in the science of consciousness, bringing together neuroscience and philosophy to lay the foundations for our emerging understanding of how brains give rise to subjective experience.
David Chalmers | Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1995 | Article
Another classic, making the influential distinction between the "hard" and "easy" problems of consciousness. Read it and see if you agree.
Anil Seth | Aeon, 2016 | Article
Seth's approach to the problem of consciousness, charting a pragmatic "middle ground" between the hard problem and the easy problems.