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Your Brain Lies to You (And That's a Good Thing): Anil Seth on Consciousness

Your Brain Lies to You (And That's a Good Thing): Anil Seth on Consciousness

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What if everything you see, hear, and feel isn't real? What if it's
just your brain's best prediction of what's real? Dr. Heather
Berlin and Dr. Christof Koch sat down with neuroscientist and
consciousness researcher Anil Seth to explore the profound question
of: What is consciousness? Seth's answer might surprise (and even
unsettle) you. Consciousness isn't a window onto reality. It's a
controlled hallucination constructed by your brain to make sense of
a world it can never directly access. These questions of
consciousness illuminate central ideas of the Perception Box, a
framework developed by Elizabeth R. Koch for understanding the
forces within us that shape how we see ourselves, relate to others,
and move through the world. Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and
Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for
Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. He is the author
of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness and more than 200
scientific papers. Dr. Heather Berlin is a neuroscientist, clinical
psychologist, and Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr.
Christof Koch is Chief Scientist for the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation
and the current Meritorious Investigator and former President of
the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Join us for new episodes of
Science of Perception Box every Thursday. Follow the show on
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your podcast app, or tell a friend! Visit unlikelycollaborators.com
for more information. Chapters: 00:00 Escaping the echo
chamber 01:43 Defining consciousness 09:05 Perception as
"controlled hallucination" 11:26 Why perception feels like reality
(an adaptive illusion) 17:06 When perception shapes social and
historical "truth" 19:03 Hallucination as uncontrolled perception
21:57 What is the self? 33:38 Intelligence vs. consciousness 35:42
Anthropomorphizing AI and "bio-chauvinism" 36:10 Biological
naturalism: can AI be conscious? 39:44 Should AI be designed to
seem conscious? 40:52 Perception Box question