Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 498. I'm your host Thomas Smith and got a fun brain one for you again, I guess, today.

Love learning about the brain.

So interesting.

It's perhaps the most interesting object in the entire universe.

It's not impossible.

At the very least, it's among the most interesting things in the entire universe, our brains.

I feel like most people have not the slightest idea

of everything that goes on in our brains. Well, I guess our bodies as well. I mean, there's so

many processes and biologically, chemically, everything. And I never get tired of learning about

it. So Dr. Janessa Seymour, inspired by recent episodes of this show, wanted to tell us about

hallucinations, the different kinds. I mean, you might

immediately think about visual hallucinations, but what about auditory hallucinations? What about

sensory hallucinations? What's going on there? What happens when our senses go amok, when

something changes, maybe in our body, in our brain, and our brain doesn't know it when that happens.

Crazy things can happen.

We can perceive things that aren't there.

And how is that different from delusions, misperceptions, all of that interesting brain stuff?

And finally, is AI hallucination a good term for what goes on when we talk about AI

hallucinations?

This episode is not much about AI, but in the

process of learning about our brains and what goes on, it's Janessa's way of teaching us that

the term hallucination may not be great when talking about AI. It may not make much sense.

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