The Self Illusion: How Brain Mind and Experience Construct Who We Are

<p>Neuroscience and philosophy agree: the self you know is an illusion. Your brain constructs a cohesive identity from fragments of memory perception and storytelling but beneath the surface there is no central you.</p><p>This groundbreaking book explores the startling truth behind consciousness weaving together cutting-edge research and ancient wisdom. Discover how split-brain patients reveal two minds in one body why psychedelics and meditation dissolve the ego and whether AI could ever experience a sense of self. Through gripping case studies from amnesiacs who rebuild their identities to machines that think they&rsquo;re conscious you&rsquo;ll see how your brain crafts the fiction of you moment by moment.</p><p>What happens when we let go of the illusion? Can there be free will without a self? And if identity is fluid who&mdash;or what&mdash;will you become tomorrow?</p><p>Provocative enlightening and deeply transformative this book doesn&rsquo;t just challenge your assumptions; it dissolves them. You are not a thing. You are a process. And that changes everything.</p>