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BITESIZE | How Your Brain Creates Your Conscious Reality | Professor Anil Seth #439
Mar 29, 2024
Anil Seth, a leading neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Science at the University of Sussex, challenges our understanding of reality. He argues that our brains create a controlled hallucination, shaping our perceptions rather than merely reading the world. The conversation explores how personal biases affect our interpretation of experiences, demonstrated through relatable examples. Seth also discusses the transformative effects of meditation on consciousness, highlighting its power to enhance self-awareness and shared understanding.
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Quick takeaways
- Our brain actively creates our conscious reality, viewing life as a controlled hallucination.
- Our perceptions are subjective constructions influenced by perspective, shaping our understanding of truth and reality.
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Our brains don't read the world, they write it
Neuroscientist Anil Seth proposes that our brains create our conscious reality, describing it as a controlled hallucination. He explains that our brains don't passively perceive the world but actively generate it. Anil uses the example of color perception to illustrate that what we experience is the brain's best guess based on limited input, showing the indirectness between our experiences and reality.
