Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

A neuroscientist's account of the self as the brain's best guess: about the world, about the body from the inside, and about who you are. It makes feelings like dread or flatness easier to see as perceptions, which can be questioned, rather than facts.

Worth knowing: Seth argues for one framework (perception as prediction). It is influential, not settled, and other researchers disagree.

Find a copy · the research behind it: Is emotion in the event or in the body's model of it?