What Does It Mean to Be You?

Anil seth is a professor of cognitive and comp tional neuro science at the university of sussex. He is author of a book called being you, a new science of consciousness. We have an experience, and we know that we're having it. Young infants or other animals may have conscious experiences without being aware of the fact that they are conscious. One of the very distinctive about us humans is what we might call extensive mental time travel. And in our rolling mental lives, these past events and possible futures play a quite dominant role,. In a way that probably isn't the case for most other animals.

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