Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and author of Being You.
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity by Thomas Metzinger
I want to say one more thing on Being No One. It really is a book worth making time for, if you can.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
This book has been a massive influence on me, as has Dennett himself, throughout my career.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald Edelman & Giulio Tononi
This book takes a different route and that's why I found it hugely influential and interesting when I read it back in 2000. It was co- authored by Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio
Another book I wanted to mention in this context is a fairly obvious choice, Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error, which is a foundational book about the self, in particular because it reconnects emotion with rationality and the body.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Then, finally, there is Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions are Made, which is very recent and very up to date.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I loved his Never Let Me Go, which I thought was beautifully delicate and raw and powerful.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
There's a book, which isn't in the five I've chosen (though it could well have been), Peter Godfrey Smith's Other Minds, which I think is a beautiful exploration of other minds.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
Metzinger has also written a trade book called The Ego Tunnel, which is a shorter, more accessible account of the same core ideas. It's from 2009, so it's been around a while, but it's a really wonderful book.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch
His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
The Mechanical Mind in History by Philip Husbands & Owen Holland
There are a couple of other books I'd have loved to have included here. My PhD supervisor, Phil Husbands, and Owen Holland, have a recent book called The Mechanical Mind in History
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
The Mechanization of the Mind by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Dupuy's book relates all this and much more, and it does so in a beautifully written and admirably concise way.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Sep 2021
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