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#649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?
Modern Wisdom
The Brain's Active Interpretation of the World
Experiences of the world and self are not direct reflections of an objective reality, but rather a process of active interpretation by the brain./nPerceptual conscious experience is based on the brain's predictions about the causes of sensory signals./nSensory signals serve to keep the brain's predictions tied to reality for useful behavior./nExperiences are internally generated, leading to the metaphor of 'controlled hallucination'.
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