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The New Science of Consciousness || Anil Seth

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

The Ravenous Brain

There's a lot of debate in the field, as you know, about which are the most essential bits of the brain for consciousness. I think there's a lot more to the self than can be accounted for by this activity that is default mode, so to speak. The body is an object in the world and the body from within with its emotions and moods. But maybe that's the bedrock of experiences of self. Let's see how far understanding neural activations can get us in answering some of those deep questions.

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