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The CONTROLLED Hallucination: Is Your REALITY Real?
Season 1 Episode 127
What if the world you're experiencing right now—the colors, the sounds, the feeling of the chair you're sitting in—isn't real? What if it's just your brain's best guess? A "controlled hallucination" you've learned to live inside.
Join us as we unravel the greatest mystery in the universe: consciousness itself. In this episode, we dive deep into the groundbreaking work of neuroscientist Anil Seth, author of "Being You," who argues that our perception of reality is not a window onto the world, but a story our brain tells itself. We explore his revolutionary theory of the " controlled hallucination ," a prediction-based mechanism that explains everything from why we see color to the very nature of our emotions.
We'll shatter the outdated metaphor of the brain as a computer and reveal the profoundly strange truth: your mind is deeply connected to your body, an embodied cognition machine built for one purpose—to keep you alive. We'll touch on the James-Lange theory of emotion and discuss the mind-bending implications this new science has for psychedelics, anesthesia, and the future of brain-computer interfaces. This is the ultimate guide to the neuroscience of your subjective experience.
If you're ready to question everything and meet the person your brain is creating, subscribe now. It's time to explore what it truly means to be you.
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