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EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

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What Is Perception?

In the book, I take the strategy of what are the most general properties of consciousness and divide them into the level which we're going to talk about. So moving on to content, the idea here is that when you are conscious, like not under general anesthesia, you're conscious of something. How do we account for conscious contents in terms of brain mechanisms? And here, and this is really what drives the majority of the work that I do in the lab with my colleagues day in day out, is the idea that the brain is a kind of prediction machine.

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