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Anil Seth - How Our Minds Predict Our Reality

Mind & Life

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What Is Free Will?

Theory of free will is based on how we perceive the world. The content of this perception is that i i performed an action i didn't have to perform, and i could have done otherwise. That's the content of that perceiving in the same way as the content of things like colors, shapes, other stuff in it. Am I actually causing anything to happen? It's a construction of the brain’s relationship with something else. When i perceive something being read, i'm not perceiving my own mind at all. And when i think about what emotions are, they're really just predictive perceptions of physiaill regulate tor relevant changes in bodily state. How does your work

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