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Anil Seth explores the mystery of consciousness

The TED Interview

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Are You Conscious When You're Under Anesthesia?

Anil Seth: We overestimate the subjective continuity of ourselves as individuals. He says we have a former consciousness if you're dreaming, for example. But our experience that we're having of being me probably is changing all the time,. will be it quite slowly. And then at the end of life where we have maybe the disintegration of a sense of identity through dementia or through Alzheimer's.

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