Anil Seth

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

But she's never seen a red rose.

And then one day, armed with all this knowledge, she comes out of the lab and there's a red rose.

And does she learn anything new?

Is there something surprising about it?

And I think I can empathize with that dilemma because in one sense, the experience she's going to have is what she would expect.

It's not like, oh, you know, that's totally not what I was expecting.

But of course, when you have an experience for the first time, your brain is in a different state.

The state of experiencing the red rose is different from the state of knowing about the experience of a red rose.

So...

Yeah, I mean, for me, it was a little like that.

That, ah, yeah, that's what it's actually like, which was the same and different from what I expected.

I think so.

You know, sometimes these things are a little hard to remember.

But yeah, I think in my personal experience, things like this do show up.

You do have these experiences of meaning, of deep insight.

So this idea of like irrationality, that's kind of important.

It's not that the...

experience itself is irrational but but you have the experience of something that is beyond rationality happening you have the sense of being in contact you know ethically with something you have some yeah you have these other things too and and it's similar to the out-of-body experience thing for me it's like these are fascinating thinking back on them they're fascinating elements of the experience

But do I take them literally as in that experience really did bring me in closer to contact with reality?

It really did indicate something fundamentally incompatible with rationality happening.

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