Anil Seth: Being yourself

Our guest today is trying to work out why we think, and why we exist as cognitive beings. It turns out we're not very good at assessing ourselves and how we think. Which makes the whole thing difficult. Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex Anil Seth has put his work on the subject so far down in a new book titled Being You. He joins Kathryn to discuss the fabric of reality and why we have such a hard time comprehending it.

Our guest today is trying to work out why we think, and why we exist as cognitive beings.

It turns out we’re not very good at assessing ourselves and how we think.

Which makes the whole thing difficult. Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex Anil Seth has put his work on the subject so far down in a new book titled Being You.

He joins Kathryn to discuss the fabric of reality and why we have such a hard time comprehending it.

Anil Seth: Being yourself
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