Anil Seth - How Our Minds Predict Our Reality
Mind & Life
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Perceptions of the Self Are Just Forms of Perception
How do you see these ideas about m the brain and the mind aser implications for how we think about ourselves? And this was where this line of thought took me ina direction i wasn't necessarily expecting to go. I started out mainly interested in perception of the world and how that happened. But it becomes natural, at least me, to think that the self is not the thing that does the perceiving. The self is a perception. It's particularly relevant when think about psychiatric conditions, which can often be well described as altered perception of self.
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