Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality - Anil Seth
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Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a 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."
What is an example of how the brain uses new predictions to change what we consciously experience? How does sensory information impact the brain’s perceptions?
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