Author Christof Koch shares 5 key insights from his new book, Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It.

Consciousness is ultimately about being, not about doing. We are liberating ourselves from the constraints of strait-laced physicalism with an empirically testable theory that centers on experience, meaning the only thing that exists for itself, in an absolute sense. A theory that explains how the mind and its causal powers create the world, including the most active piece of organized matter in the known universe: the brain.