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1/20 FINALLY – its launch day (UK, @FaberBooks) for Being You – A New Science of Consciousness. It will be in bookshops around the country, and also available online (hardback, eBook audiobook) - more details at anilseth.com/being-you/ and at amazon.co.uk/Being-You-Insi… 
2/20 I’m excited to talk about the book this evening at the Royal Institution @Ri_Science, in person and online, starting at 7pm and followed by beers. Now with added @AdamRutherford. Tickets available here: rigb.org/whats-on/event…
3/20 Being You is all about consciousness, and explains how and why our experiences of the world, and of being a 'self', are deeply grounded in our nature as living creatures.
[#BookoftheWeek] Just finished “Shields of the Republic” of @MiraRappHooper, a compelling and important essay on the value of America’s system of alliances in Europe and Asia but also on the need to adapt them to the new realities of our strategic environment.
1/ After having avoided “entangling alliances” during the 19th century, US calculus changed after WWII (“Our geographical security is now gone” - President Truman) leading to the creation of a vast network of defensive security guarantees.
This system of alliances was based on a new kind of strategy. Rather than aiming at wining specific wars, these alliances were “intended to keep conflict from breaking out in the first place” by maintaining the peacetime balance of power in Europe and Asia.
