Being yourself isn’t as easy as it might seem. In the brain of each of us, billions of neurons tirelessly work to create our everyday conscious experience. But how exactly does that happen? How is perception of the surrounding reality formed “from a first-person point of view”? Nowadays science has gained the ability to observe biological mechanisms of the brain responsible for the processes through which consciousness arises.
Based on the results of many years of research, neuroscientist Anil Seth put forward a new theory of consciousness—one that plays for neuroscience the same role that the Dawkins theory did for evolutionary biology.