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#649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Perception

Anil Seth took LSD as a teenager in south oxfordshire and wanted to know what it was like from the first person you know thinking about consciousness. It's notoriously hard to describe these kinds of experiences without sounding entirely naff but he says there are many ways to get out of our perceptual habits that we're in which can be very illuminating. Anil seth: "I didn't take LSD until I was in my 40s so for me maybe very curious about what kinds of conscious experiences are available"

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