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The review aims to evaluate Anil Seth's predictive processing framework for understanding consciousness and its implications.

March 30, 2026Open Access

Book review: “Being you” by Anil Seth.

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The review aims to evaluate Anil Seth's predictive processing framework for understanding consciousness and its implications.
Analyzes three parts of the book: conscious level, conscious content, and conscious self.
Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Seth's approach.
Discusses the integration of phenomenology with predictive processing.
Seth's approach presents a significant shift in understanding consciousness, akin to a Copernican revolution.
The book successfully captures the richness of conscious experiences while attempting to focus on predictive models.

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In this book, Anil Seth advocates a predictive processing approach to the understanding of conscious experience, which he claims would amount to something like a Copernican revolution. In three separate parts of the book, Seth discusses conscious level, conscious content, and conscious self. Among the strengths of the book is an ambition to stay close to the rich phenomenology of conscious experiences. The phenomenological openness, however, is counteracted by an ambition to reduce all aspects of consciousness to predictive processing.

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Lars‐Gunnar Lundh

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SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología

Journal for Person-Oriented Research

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Lund University

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Book review: “Being you” by Anil Seth.

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