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TRIGGERnometry

Neuroscientist: "We Live in a Controlled Hallucination"

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He has given one of TED's most popular science talks with over 13 million views, and Sam Harris included his conversation with Dr Seth in a book of his 11 favourite interviews. His latest book, 'Being You: A New Science of Consciousness', is a Sunday Times Bestseller.

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0

You may have heard about people's postcode lottery, and often wondered how does it work.

0:06.0

Playing is simple.

0:07.0

You sign up for a monthly subscription of 12 pounds, guaranteeing you entry into every draw,

0:12.0

and your ticket is your postcode.

0:15.0

Prizes are one every day, including millionaire street, where one lucky postcode wins a share

0:21.0

of 1 million pounds every Saturday.

0:24.0

Also, at the end of the month, players in one postcode area win a share of a minimum

0:29.0

of £3.2 million, a minimum of 33% of every ticket goes to charities and good causes across

0:37.0

Great Britain and beyond, with a staggering £1.1 billion raised so far.

0:43.0

So, for a chance to win, sign up before midnight on the 24th of August to play in the September

0:49.0

Draws, and the next winning postcode could be yours.

0:53.0

PPL managed lotries on behalf of good causes, 18-plus conditions apply.

0:57.0

Play responsibly, not available in Northern Ireland.

1:00.0

It's very easy to assume that we all experience the world the same way.

1:05.0

You're wearing a kind of mauve purple shirt and a blue shirt, and it seems like that's out there in the world.

1:10.0

Those colours are out there in the world, they're not being made up in my head.

1:13.0

But that's not true. We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.

1:18.0

So there's some classic studies about the effective language that native Russian speakers distinguish more shades of blues.

1:27.0

These categories are imposed in a slightly different way.

1:30.0

If we see things in a different way, then we're talking about two different realities.

1:36.0

In a sense, I've been fond of saying that our experience is like a controlled hallucination.

1:43.0

We have these social media echo chambers, but we also have to some extent perceptual echo chambers too.

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