INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"A brilliant beast of a book."—David Byrne"Exhilarating... a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text." —The GuardianAnil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science.What does it mean to “be you”—that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more