Long ago, I first came across the idea in John Berger - that seeing is not objective or passive; that it is something that happens not in the eyes, but in the mind.
I was excited to read neuroscientist Anil Seth's new book 'Being You' wherein he explores not only the latest discoveries of how perception works but new ideas about how consciousness itself arises.
Consciousness and perception have been the subject of philosophical speculation for millennia. Modern science is still far from supplying a complete accounting of how this all works. We don’t seem to be anywhere near explaining this ‘hard problem’. The most fundamental and ubiquitous experience of being alive remains shrouded in mystery!