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#649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Conscious Experiences

I'd been prepared to be disappointed I think about okay it's it's well that wasn't quite as transformational as I as I'd been hoping for but it was I was not I was not disappointed and it is it is remarkable. Some people would take entirely the opposite conclusion and the fact that a psychedelic experience may give you a sense that you you're outside of your body or that yourself as part of the universe might lead them to believe their normal conscious experiences are some kind of heavily filtered down version of reality. It just reinforced my idea that our conscious experiences are biological phenomena in the same way that anesthesia did you know anesthesia for me shows that you can if you change the brain in a

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