Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
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The Mechanical Mind in History Recommends
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
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The Feeling of Life Itself Liked
His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.
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Other Minds Loved
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.
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Never Let Me Go Loved
I loved his Never Let Me Go, which I thought was beautifully delicate and raw and powerful.
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Klara and the Sun: A Novel Loved
Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.
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How Emotions are Made Recommends
Then, finally, there is Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions are Made, which is very recent and very up to date.
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Descartes' Error Recommends
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.
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The Ego Tunnel Loved
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.
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Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity Recommends
I want to say one more thing on Being No One. It really is a book worth making time for, if you can.
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Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination Recommends
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.
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The Mechanization of the Mind Recommends
Dupuy's book relates all this and much more, and it does so in a beautifully written and admirably concise way.
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Consciousness Explained Recommends
This book has been a massive influence on me, as has Dennett himself, throughout my career.
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