{"id":174757,"date":"2023-10-26T01:28:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality"},"modified":"2023-10-26T01:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:28:56","slug":"your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality","title":{"rendered":"Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyu7v7nWzfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/TED.com\">http:\/\/TED.com<\/a> to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience \u2014 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\u2019re all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it \u201creality.\u201d Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.<\/p>\n<p>The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world\u2019s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design \u2014 plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You\u2019re welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know.<\/p>\n<p>Follow TED on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TEDTalks\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/TEDTalks<\/a>.<br \/> Like TED on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/TED\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/TED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TED\u2019s videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution\u2013Non Commercial\u2013No Derivatives (or the CC BY \u2013 NC \u2013 ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/about\/our-organization\/our-policies-terms\/ted-talks-usage-policy).\">https:\/\/www.ted.com\/about\/our-organization\/our-policies-term\u2026e-policy).<\/a> For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at <a href=\"https:\/\/media-requests.ted.com\">https:\/\/media-requests.ted.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit http:\/\/TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience \u2014 and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-neuroscience","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}