##### [[Being You by Anil Seth]]
**Creator**:: [[Anil Seth]]
**Source**:: [[10_Sources/Readwise/Books/books - Being You]]
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A. Seth (2021). *Being You: A New Science of Consciousness*
## Summaries
#### Prologue
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### Chapter 1
Seth starts by stating his starting point for understanding [[consciousness]]: [[phenomenology]], or our [[subjective]] [[experience]].
He contrasts this with other theories of [[consciousness]] such as [[Global workspace theory]] and [[Higher-order theories of consciousness]], which focus on functional properties.