Anil Seth

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Know Thyself · E205 - Anil Seth: Your Perception of Reality & Self Is a Hallucination · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that's part of this humility that we're talking about, the recognition that prior expectations deep within our brain are just necessary to experience anything, to believe anything.

So knowing they're there is, I think, is helpful.

Feeling that we can get rid of them is, I think, not so helpful because ultimately we can't.

That's a very good question.

It depends on what you mean by memory, which is a very, very tricky question, right?

Because in a sense,

the basic structure of our brains that just develops over time.

You can think of that as a kind of memory that's been installed very gradually by evolution.

So, you know, if I wake up in the morning too, I look in the mirror, I see my face.

A few more wrinkles in you, a few less hairs in you, but you know.

I'm on my way.

Give it enough time.

Exactly.

Entropy comes for us all in the end.

But it's still recognizably me.

And if I wiped my memory, let's say I took a drug that kind of completely obliterated my memory of the last year, would I still recognize myself in the mirror?

Probably yes, because I've learned what I look like over a longer time period, the time period of my life.

Now, let's say I obliterated my memory for many years.

Then it might be a bit trickier.

But I would still see a face.

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