The instant Sunday Times Bestseller and Guardian Book of the Week, Being You is an accessible and revolutionary book that will forever alter your relationship with the world - and with yourself.

Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? How is it that we experience the colour red, the pangs of jealousy, the pain of toothache? Why do we experience life in the first person?

Drawing on twenty years’ original research and collaborations with cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, brain imagers, virtual reality wizards, mathematicians and philosophers, Anil Seth puts forward a new theory about how we experience the world that should encourage us to view ourselves as less apart from and more a part of the rest of nature. Consciousness, he shows, is more about being alive than being intelligent.

Taking readers on an exhilarating journey through the brain and beyond, Seth presents a unique account of what it means to 'be you' which challenges our understanding of perception and reality and turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head. Being You is an inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the nature of consciousness by one of the most remarkable pioneers working in science today.