Books like Being You by Anil Seth

Sam Harris’ guide shows how meditation, grounded in neuroscience and psychology, can bring spiritual insight to those without religious affiliation, exploring consciousness and present‑moment awareness.

Michael Pollan explores how LSD and psilocybin are being used to treat depression, addiction, and anxiety, combining personal experience with scientific research and historical context.

Explores how emerging mathematics and neuroscience can unravel the mysteries of consciousness, brain function, and the future of mind‑computer interfaces.

Thomas Metzinger argues that the conscious self is not an independent entity but a model generated by the brain, exploring the implications for free will, morality, and our understanding of consciousness.

"In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.". "Metzinger introduces two theoretical entities - the "phenomenal self-model" and the "phenomenal model of the intentionality relation" - that may form the decisive conceptual link between first-person and third-person approaches to the conscious mind and between consciousness research in the humanities and in the sciences. He also discusses the roots of intersubjectivity, artificial subjectivity (the issue of nonbiological phenomenal selves), and connections between philosophy of mind and ethics."--BOOK JACKET.