Anil Seth: Being You

How does the feeling of ‘being you’ emerge from billions of neurons? Pioneering neuroscientist Anil Seth’s spent decades investigating that question.

His bestselling Being You offers an astonishing answer: consciousness is not a window onto reality but a controlled hallucination our brains generate to keep us alive.

Hear the author of one of the most exhilarating science books of recent years discuss perception, selfhood, and why nothing is quite as it seems with Gavin Francis.