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Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.

There is more and what we see.

Long time listeners of this show will know that one of the topics I'm really fascinated by is consciousness, specifically the neural basis

of consciousness, how the biology of the brain gives rise to every experience we've ever had,

ever will have, and everything in between, the sort of essence of who we are.

How is it possible that that actually comes from a bunch of cells?

We've had Daniel Dennett talking about this on this show from a philosophical perspective, along with

Annaica Harris. We've spoken to physicists Sean Carroll about it and many cognitive scientists.

But it's been a while. So why don't we revisit and see where

the latest conversation on the neuroscience of consciousness is taking us? Ann Osseth is a professor of

cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, and he's the co-director

of the Sackler Center for Consciousness Science.

And he just came out with a book, which I found incredibly easy to read, interesting, and yet

with the kind of depth that satisfies someone who's been thinking about this problem for many

years. It's called Being You, a new science of consciousness.

Anil Seth, welcome to inquiring minds. Thanks for having me. So I really enjoyed your book.

I'm really excited to talk to you about a number of things. But I think the sort of format in which

you write your book is a really kind of

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