304 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2023 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Pantheon.
They were some pretty interesting ideas around how people perceive the world, but most chapters felt incredibly repetitive. There were a few core ideas that took up 20-30% of the book, while the rest of the book was mainly examples, causing it to be a slog to go through.
A pop update to the author's more academic Surfing Uncertainty on the predictive processing view of consciousness, with most of those details in a brief appendix and the focus on cognitive study examples, cognitive biases and confusions that seem clearer when viewed through this lens, and ways to think of our predictive brains as embodied and extended in the world.
