{"id":96252,"date":"2019-09-15T01:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality-anil-seth"},"modified":"2019-09-15T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T08:02:26","slug":"your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality-anil-seth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality-anil-seth","title":{"rendered":"Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth"},"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>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>Check out more TED talks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\">http:\/\/www.ted.com<\/a><\/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.<\/p>\n<p>Follow TED on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TEDTalks\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TEDTalks<\/a><br \/> Like TED on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96252","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}