Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we’re all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it “reality.” Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
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8 years later youtube recommended me this video. For what?
Dude looks like Voldemort and says noone exists. Are Ted talk aming for becoming the Darwin Award show?
Why I am hallucinating horrendous levels of anxiety, as well as my conscious reality?
You know there are scientists who say the brain imagines everything, then there are scientists who say the brain is itself imagined, some say that everything is consciousness some say we don't have any idea what consciousness actually is… and stuff like that. Bla bla bla… you know, the more I hear all of those different opinions I just get that we basically don't know as much about anything as we think we do lol
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED
So where did the initial mention of anestehesia go ? If anesthetics can turn off consciousness, wouldn't they have some more to say about how it is sustined, or even how it arises ?
2026 ai here
Who does the brain hallucinate to?
Si podemos ver qué nuestro cerebro procesa información y alucina, eso también es parte de la alucinacion! Entonces, Buscaremos alguna costura invisible? Tengo frío y tengo hambre, voy en una balsa a la deriva durante más de diez días sin comida, Recuerdo a Anil Seth y…ya! Caso solucionado? Porque una situación de supervivencia no rompe la malla?
Are our brain really did ever exist
Tem que rasgar o cool do cachaceiro!
Our brain just makes the best predictions about our surroundings, it doesn't know what is where.
"When we agree about our hallucinations, we call them reality". ~A smart guy
When the end of consciousness comes, there is nothing to be afraid of
Great Video !
All we do is imagination all the time. So when we derive something out of this imagination as a utility or service we value it. Otherwise we call it plain imagination and a waste of time. It's all silly and we can't get out of this imagination however hard we try
So are we hallucinating that everyone else is having the same hallucination?
This was all explained in the lotus sutra. Trust in Buddhism.
Brains need the body, consciousness needs the brain, cosmos needs consciousness.
If it’s a hallucination walking in front of a car and see how much the hallucination hurts😂
11:22 I don't think that's a valid conclusion. I would react the same way, even if I was just sitting there with my hands in my pockets.
Like sound of dog😂🤣
The dog is barking 😂🤣😂
The celebrity They are dancing after they are shouting like aw! In the end?
Because many people are united All over The world,
Like dance? Crazy Dance
The hand's is his finger is turning his besides his Ears.. two his finger 😂🤣😂 if you talented.. people what's they means people.. More posing like they are in the Beach
They shouting, puwit -puwit,
Luke posing MAGA -MAGA..
Like wealthy people..his posing.. always squarrel..drama 😂🤣😂 😊
All perception is conception.
All expression is invention.
Hence the criticality of comparing our shared models interactively: peer review.
But…how to get Out of the body?