Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Seth's main argument is a build on Julien Offray de La Mettrie's l'homme machine: the Beast Machine. He contrasts this with the free energy principle (FEP) and integrated information theory (IIT). The rest of the book is standard neuroscience, for the most part.

Shorter versions of the theory, here:

• Being a Beast Machine: The Somatic Basis of Selfhood, Trends Cogn Sci., Seth A. (doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.08.008)
• We Are Beast Machines, Nautilus, Seth A. (https://nautil.us/we-are-beast-machines-238325/)

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