Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Annal Seth. He's a professor of

cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the

Sackler Center for Consciousness Science and An Author. What is the self? What does it mean

that we are the same person we were ten 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 is such a difficult

challenge. Why you wake up as the same person every day, whether we know for a fact that animals are

conscious, why perception is often divorced from objective reality, just how reliable our memories

are, how to trust your brain even when it's incredibly fallible, and much more. One week from

today, Chris Bums said, the four-time Mr Olympia Classic Physique Champion will be on modern wisdom.

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