#26 No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and one of the world's leading experts in consciousness research. His TED talk Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Experience has captivated over 17 million viewers, and his groundbreaking book Being You explores the incredible mystery of perception and consciousness.Buy Being You (It's Genuinely Great) - https://amzn.to/4ccATngYour brain is constantly hallucinating your reality—it's predicting, guessing, and making mistakes every moment of your life. Understanding these hallucinations can radically alter your view of what’s real, what’s illusion, and how your emotions are truly made.Expect to learn why the famous ‘dress illusion’ broke the internet, how your brain invents colours that don't objectively exist, why emotions aren't reliable signals but brain-generated best guesses, whether your kitchen exists when no one’s observing it, why AI might never experience true consciousness, how optical illusions reveal the brain’s hidden mechanisms, and much more...00:00 Why Your Brain Hallucinates Your Reality02:30 The Dress Illusion That Broke the Internet Explained07:15 Your Brain Lies About Color (and You Believe It)12:40 Messi-Shaped People: How Peripheral Vision Fools You17:35 The Shocking Truth About Optical Illusions23:10 Why Your Emotions Are Just Guesses from Your Brain29:02 The Rickety Bridge Experiment: Misunderstood Arousal34:00 Cold Showers, Pain, and How Your Brain Tricks You38:15 Does Your Kitchen Exist When Nobody Looks?43:50 Panpsychism, Conscious Agents, and Reality as an Illusion49:30 Why Consciousness Might Require Life54:05 Could AI Ever Become Truly Conscious?58:40 How to Know When Your Brain Is Lying to You1:02:30 The Strange World of Synesthesia: Letters Coming Out of Mouths1:06:10 Why Meditation Helps You Decode Your Brain’s Lies1:10:25 Anil Seth’s Biggest Insight from Studying Consciousness...Follow My Neuroscience Podcast - The Giants Shoulder Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=b33232eae67b4126Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/brief-enquiry-to-the-brain/id1752486249Get the Comfiest Sleep Mask on the Planet at https://bit.ly/4ilzfBL (use Code GIANTSMANTA10)