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

Modern Wisdom

CHAPTER

The Nature of Self and Consciousness

Seth Godin talks about how his research into the nature of self and consciousness has changed your relationship with emotions. He says that he's a bit more adaptively detached from the transient flow of emotions than he was not entirely but I still feel frustrated anxious sad upset for furious at times happy to sometimes now. The direct experience is probably better than theoretical knowledge you know in the same way that direct experience outstrips what one might learn from books, experiments or even meditative practice. SethGodin: "I would be disappointed if it had no effect"

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