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Uncle Joe

(65,516 posts)
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 01:39 PM Jul 2025

Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED



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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Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED (Original Post) Uncle Joe Jul 2025 OP
i believe i am really a... ret5hd Jul 2025 #1
Ever read "The Dreaming Universe," by Fred Alan Wolf? SheltieLover Jul 2025 #2
I may have seen this before, but, I am enjoying it as if it is new. 1WorldHope Jul 2025 #3
Wish Terence McKenna were here to hear that presentation. Kid Berwyn Jul 2025 #4

ret5hd

(22,588 posts)
1. i believe i am really a...
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jul 2025

not very bright, maybe even developmentally damaged, boltzmann brain.

1WorldHope

(2,152 posts)
3. I may have seen this before, but, I am enjoying it as if it is new.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:12 PM
Jul 2025

I love this kind of stuff!
The Dreaming Universe sounds like a book I told myself to read after I heard a story about it on NPR. But I didn't write it down. So, now I'm going to find it and read it. Thank you thank you thank you.

Kid Berwyn

(25,073 posts)
4. Wish Terence McKenna were here to hear that presentation.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:57 PM
Jul 2025

Thank you for the heads-up, Uncle Joe!

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