New Scientist recommends Being You and The Man Without Qualities

I have been listening to the audiobook of Being You: A new science of consciousness by Anil Seth (pictured above). This is a fascinating exploration of his idea that consciousness is the result of the biological processes of our bodies and that the sensation of selfhood – of being “you” – and our sense of reality itself emerge from what he calls “the brain’s controlled hallucination”, based on predictions of the body’s internal state.

Seth draws on research from his own lab and discusses competing ideas about neuroscience and philosophical debates that have grappled with the enigma of consciousness over hundreds…