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Anil Seth: Is Consciousness a Controlled Hallucination?

Oct 13, 2021

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

04:40

Why Do People Think Dualism Is Attractive?

04:40

Predictive Processing

05:50

Introduction

2min

Theoretical Physicist Search

4min

Controlled Hallucination

5min

Is Predictive Processing?

4min

Using a Sensory Dat of Perception

2min

Predictive Processing

6min

Is It in Principle Consistent?

2min

Predictive Processing, Is It Compatibility With Substancialism?

2min

Why Do People Think Dualism Is Attractive?

5min

10.

The Redness Isn't Out There, It's in Here

3min

11.

Is There a Reconstitution of an Inner Redness From an Outer Redness?

4min

12.

Hallucination Theory

3min

13.

I Think It's a Good Idea to Take Phenomenology Seriously

3min

14.

Predictive Processing

4min

15.

The Beast Machine

4min

16.

Is the Brain a Computer?

2min

17.

What Is the Biggest Problem With Dualism?

2min

18.

Free Will

2min

19.

Libertarian Free Will

5min

20.

Is There Any Evidence That We Just Don't Need It to Make Sense of Our Free Will?

2min

21.

I've Your Things, but You Can't Give Any Framing?

2min

22.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

5min

23.

Is Heterophenomenology Subjective?

1min

24.

Is There a Level of Indirection Going On?

3min

25.

I'm Not Hankering for the Vital Spark, I Just Don't Know, Right?

2min

26.

You Can't Capture the Qualities of Experience in the Language of Science

2min

27.

Getting Quantitative About Colour Spaces

4min

28.

Illusionism

2min

29.

I Just Accept Everything in the Book, Except When You O Materialist Ust.

2min

Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. In this episode we discuss his new book 'Being You: The New Science of Consciousness.'

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