1 hr 20 min
Anil Seth: Consciousness and illusion Paradigm
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- Science
Anil is a cognitive and computational neuroscientist and author of an excellent and highly successful book called Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
He is recognised as being in the top 0.1% of most impactful researchers globally, and his TED talks have collectively been viewed around 20 million.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers and get access to bonus content, episode notes, and subscriber perks, visit: https://www.matthewgeleta.com/
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
4:10 Blue and black or white and gold?
9:08 Yanny or Laurel?
12:17 Do we see the world in the same way?
18:21 Perceived is a controlled hallucination
24:16 Why does consciousness exist?
31:19 The Hard and Real problems of consciousness
34:15 Integrated information theory
46:17 Beast machines and the emergence of consciousness
1:04:40 Dreams, psychedelics and exotic conscious experiences
1:18:00 Book recommendations
Anil is a cognitive and computational neuroscientist and author of an excellent and highly successful book called Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
He is recognised as being in the top 0.1% of most impactful researchers globally, and his TED talks have collectively been viewed around 20 million.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers and get access to bonus content, episode notes, and subscriber perks, visit: https://www.matthewgeleta.com/
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
4:10 Blue and black or white and gold?
9:08 Yanny or Laurel?
12:17 Do we see the world in the same way?
18:21 Perceived is a controlled hallucination
24:16 Why does consciousness exist?
31:19 The Hard and Real problems of consciousness
34:15 Integrated information theory
46:17 Beast machines and the emergence of consciousness
1:04:40 Dreams, psychedelics and exotic conscious experiences
1:18:00 Book recommendations
1 hr 20 min