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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?
Description: Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscientist at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and an author.What is the Self? What does it mean that we are the same person we were 10 years ago? Why do we have a subjective experience of reality at all? Is consciousness created or perceived? These are fundamental questions that philosophers and neuroscientists have been trying to answer for centuries. So can a new science of consciousness give us the answers?Expect to learn why answering the problem of consciousness...