Is your perception of reality just a shared hallucination?
In short: Neuroscientist Anil Seth explores how billions of neurons collaborate to construct your conscious experience. This talk examines the thin line between what we perceive as the external world and the internal projections of our own brains.
The video investigates the mechanism behind how the brain generates an experience of the world and the self. Seth proposes a provocative idea: that our conscious reality is essentially a continuous hallucination, and we only label it as 'reality' when our individual perceptions align.
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