Anil Seth

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

Issues there about like, well, how come you can see something from somewhere else when your eyes are still where you left them?

So there's problems with that.

But you can take it as a different kind of evidence.

And the different kind of evidence would be that, oh, actually this first person perspective, like where I seem to see the world from, is just like color or shape, not something I should take for granted.

The brain is continually trying to figure out where...

where the first person perspective should be.

And pretty much all of the time, it gets it right and puts the first person perspective somewhere where the head is.

But in some cases, it gets it wrong.

And we experience the first person perspective from a different location.

And to me, that's

It's a better explanation because it's more compatible with everything else we know.

We no longer have to explain how it's possible to see things without eyes.

But also, I think it's just more interesting because it reveals to us that there's an aspect of our experience that we might have taken for granted, that we might not think we needed to explain.

And now we need to come up with an explanation.

Ah, I see.

So the first person perspective is something the brain is doing.

How is it doing it?

How can you change it?

And indeed, we can induce out-of-body illusions in the lab now by understanding the mechanisms.

And maybe the brain stops doing it altogether in some cases, and then we have an experience of no first-person perspective.

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