Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth
Anil Seth’s Being You is hard to review, because he covers astonishingly wide territory in just a few hundred pages. Rather than compiling a systematic summary of everything he says (you can just read the book for that – and I highly recommend you do), I’ll just share the important bits that come to mind. First, we have the hard problem of consciousness, which is where Seth begins. There are many ways to formulate it, but one I’ve taken a liking to lately is this: why is it that when we crack open someone’s skull and look at their brain, we don’t see their inner world?...