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#439 BITESIZE | How Your Brain Creates Your Conscious Reality | Professor Anil Seth

Mar 29, 2024
21:22
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Neuroscientist Professor Anil Seth discusses how our brains create our conscious reality through controlled hallucinations. He explains how our perceptions are interpretations of external cues, challenging the concept of objective reality. The podcast explores the influence of emotions and biases on our perceptions, as well as the relationship between meditation, mindfulness, and neuroscience in understanding consciousness.
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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.

Deep dives

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.

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