Anil Seth

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1,118 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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We open our eyes and a world appears.

It seems as though the world is just objectively out there.

The colors, the shapes, the people.

It's very easy to take for granted that this world just pours itself into our minds.

But that's a very misleading view.

There's no such thing as colors out there in the real world.

What we perceive is the brain's best guess.

A controlled hallucination.

Yeah.

I mean, none of us see things as they really are.

Just as color seems to be revealing the future of the world, the self seems to be revealing some persistent, unchanging essence of me.

That's just not the way it is.

We're going to talk about that, but firstly, a question I really want to understand.

Is consciousness really tied to life or not?

I spoke to my mother about death.

She knew it was coming, but she couldn't imagine not existing.

What dies?

The honest answer is there's wonder and awe in the simplest of experiences of opening your eyes and a world appearing.

We should celebrate the everyday miracle of being conscious.

It means a lot to me anyway.

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