Being You [2020] – ★★★★

“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood…” T. S. Eliot

Consciousness is considered the “last frontier” of science, the deepest and most elusive of all scientific mysteries. It seems incredible that, although we explored the whole planet Earth (at least the land), built robots, and are now rolling out detailed plans to go to Mars, we still have little to no clue as what is really going on inside our own heads, and how our most primary function operates – our consciousness. Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, looks at a number of theories on consciousness in his book before proposing his own – consciousness is a form of “controlled hallucination”. Evolution made sure that we survived. It had no imperative to make sure that what we perceive in our daily life is, in fact, the true objective reality.

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