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Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED
Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues in this TED talk that perception is a controlled hallucination: the brain constantly predicts the world and our shared agreement is what we call reality. He also touches on the construction of the self.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it whenever threads touch consciousness, perception or predictive-processing, especially for its examples of expectation changing what you perceive.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- consciousness and perception
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2026
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I've recently watched this talk titled "Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality" [1] by Anil Seth, seems relevant to the topic. If you are intrigued by the question of the original article you might like the TED talk. [1] [VIDEO]
hcarvalhoalves on Hacker News · 2019-07
In What If Consciousness Comes First?This TED talk has a great example where the same sound sounds different to you based on what you expect to hear, if you need to prove this to yourself [1]. His thesis is also that the brain is a prediction machine. 1. [VIDEO]
guerrilla on Hacker News · 2021-11
In To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions
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