BITESIZE | How Your Brain Creates Your Conscious Reality | Professor Anil Seth #439

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today’s guest asserts that the way we encounter reality is a construction. Our thoughts and perceptions are merely interpretations of external and biological cues. We’re all hallucinating, all the time. It’s just that when we agree on those hallucinations, we call it reality. Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests. Today’s clip is from episode 366 of the podcast with globally respected neuroscientist Anil Seth - Professor of Cognitive and Computational Science at the University of Sussex. Anil’s theory is that our brains don’t read the world, they write them – all of life is a controlled hallucination. In this clip he explains how our brains create our conscious reality. Thanks to our sponsor https://www.drinkag1.com/livemore Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore. For other podcast platforms go to https://fblm.supercast.com. Show notes and the full podcast are available at drchatterjee.com/366 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:47.3	Welcome to Feel Better Live More bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.
0:57.6	Today's clip is from episode 366 of the podcast with globally respected neuroscientist,
1:05.7	Anil Seth. Anil's theory is that our brains don't read the world.
1:11.7	They write them.
1:15.0	All of life is a controlled hallucination.
1:21.2	And in this clip, he explains how our brains create our conscious reality.
1:29.3	This idea that we're living controlled hallucinations, people could hear that, Anil, and go, what are you saying? You're saying that basically life is just a simulation? Is it not real? And I don't think you're quite saying that.
1:37.3	I'm not saying that. It's very hard to find the right words to describe these concepts that are coming out of neuroscience and philosophy.
1:46.0	No metaphor is perfect. And in this idea of our experience being a controlled hallucination,
1:52.6	the control is extremely important. Let's just reflect for a moment on what happens when we
1:58.5	open our eyes in the morning. We wake up, we open our eyes, and it seems
2:02.2	as though the world is just out there with all its colors and shapes and smells and so on,
2:08.0	and it just pours itself into our minds through the transparent windows of our eyes and our ears
2:13.1	and our nose, as if we're just passive recipients of this objective reality.
2:20.6	This might be how things seem, but it's not how things are.
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