Is there more going on inside your head than you are aware of? James Fassinger/Stockimo/Alamy
“THERE is no inner world. Our flow of momentary conscious experience is not the sparkling surface of a vast sea of thought – it is all there is.” And with this dramatic claim, Nick Chater sets out to convince us that the ubiquitous feeling our minds have depth – that our actions and behaviours can be explained in terms of something more within – is misplaced and wrong.
In The Mind Is Flat, Chater begins by asking us to think about the suicide of the hero…
