Anil Seth

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

I think it's partly about just the status of experience itself when we try to make these kinds of claims.

Let me try one more example, which I think sometimes works.

So many people have experienced out-of-body experiences.

I've had the experience...

that their consciousness has left their body and is temporarily somewhere else, maybe above them, maybe it's gone out of a window and flown around a bit.

And then it comes back into their body.

People definitely have these experiences.

They've been reported for thousands of years over many, many cultures and they've happened in lab situations and hospitals as well.

People have them.

And I think they report them more or less accurately.

I don't doubt that anyone who says that's what they experienced is more or less true, that that's what they experienced.

But how do we... What kind of evidence is that?

And you can interpret it in two ways, at least.

But here are two ways.

One way would be you take the experience not only seriously, but also literally.

And you say, okay, that is evidence that indeed consciousness can leave the body and the brain and be somewhere else and experience the world from somewhere else.

Which is a big jump.

That's a big jump.

And that's very hard to explain.

And you have all sorts of other...

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