Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality? - Anil Seth - #649

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Hello, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Anil Seth. He's a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and an author. What is the self? What does it mean that we are the same person we were 10 years ago? Why do we have a subjective experience of reality at all? Is consciousness created or perceived? These are fundamental questions that philosophers and neuroscientists have been trying to answer for centuries. So can a new science of consciousness give us the answers? Expect to learn why answering the problem of consciousness is such a difficult challenge, why you wake up as the same person every day, whether we know for a fact that animals are conscious, why perception is often divorced from objective reality, just how reliable our memories are, how to trust your brain even when it's incredibly fallible, and much more. One week from today, Chris Bumstead, the four time Mr. Olympia Classic Physique Champion will be on Modern Wisdom. I went to Florida, I recorded with him a couple of weeks ago. It is the most beautiful podcast production ever in history. It is absolutely phenomenal. The conversation is two hours long. We get to go deep into his mindset, his training, absolutely everything. It is an awesome, awesome episode. And if you don't want to miss it, you need to make sure that you've hit the subscribe button. So go and do it please on Apple podcasts or Spotify or whatever else you are listening. A thank you. In other news, this episode is brought to you by AG1. AG1 is a daily foundational nutrition supplement that supports whole body health. Even with the best diet in the world, it is hard to make sure that you get everything that you need. And through a science driven formulation of vitamins, probiotics and whole food source nutrients, AG1 delivers comprehensive support for the brain, gut and immune system. This is why Joe Rogan and Lex Friedman and Dr. Andrew Huberman and Tim Ferriss are all massive fans. They have tried every other product out there like I have and this is by far the best one available. Since 2010, AG1 have improved the formula 52 times in the pursuit of making the best foundational nutrition supplement possible through high quality ingredients and rigorous standards. Also, there's a 90 day money back guarantee. So you can buy it and try it for 89 days. And if you don't like it, they'll just give you your money back. Head to drinkag1.com/modernwisdom for that 90 day money back guarantee, a year's free supply, vitamin D, five free travel packs and more. That's drinkag1.com/modernwisdom.
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