Self, Senses, Awareness, the World... Hallucinations? Dr. Tony Nader with Dr. Anil Seth
Consciousness Is All There Is
00:00
The Consciousness Effects of Meditation on the Body
Ifo: I would be, i'm not at all surprised that meditative practices have measurable effects in the brain and the body. In a naive perspective on consciousness, might assume the self is an essence of me somewhere inside my skull which decides what action to take. But the flip here is no, the self isn't doing and perceiving the self is another kind of perception. It's another kind of controlled hallucination that emerges from brain based predictions but now these predictions have to do more with sensory information coming from the body rather than from the outside worldappropria section,. Inter reception, sense of the internal physiological state of the body, and so on.
Play episode from 53:11
Transcript
