Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality - Anil Seth
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When you wake up and open your eyes, a world (or at least your bedroom) suddenly appears. This is the mystery of consciousness: how do the billions of brain cells inside your head generate the experience of "being you?" Join neuroscientist Anil Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
The view of perception as a "controlled hallucination" has many implications for what "being a self" means. What are some of these implications?
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