Posted on Sep 5, 2017
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth
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TED Talk: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth
Video Summary - Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
Video Summary - Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
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hallucinations might be too strong a word, we do a lot of filling in blanks by habit though and by preconceptions
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He covers all of that in the lead up to his hypothesis, @8:21 that is:
Hallucination = Uncontrolled Perception
Perception = Controlled Hallucination
If everyone agrees on a Controlled Hallucination, we call it Reality.
Hallucination = Uncontrolled Perception
Perception = Controlled Hallucination
If everyone agrees on a Controlled Hallucination, we call it Reality.
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