Anil Seth

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

I don't think so.

I think those are data points about phenomenology.

They're data points about the space of possible human experiences.

Which is super interesting because we realize how our experience can change in ways, can be stretched in different directions that we might not have realized before, which means that in the everyday, we take those aspects of experience less for granted.

And that for me, that's the lasting impact of these kinds of things.

And for me, it's also the lasting impact of just thinking about perception in this way a lot in all the experiments we've done.

It's...

It's that the everyday experience, just waking up in the morning, you open your eyes, a world appears, you have a sip of coffee.

These are all little everyday miracles.

All the stuff that's very much on the surface in some of these altered states is still there in every experience, every moment of everyday life as well.

And I think people who've done a lot of meditation can sometimes say,

say similar things, that one of the lessons or one of the things that the impact of that is that you take your everyday experiences a bit less for granted.

And these, not just necessarily the outside world now, but also the experience of self, the stream of thought that you don't fall immediately into

the reification of these things of thinking they're just there that that's just how things are whether it's the world or the self that you realize that these things are processes that they unfold they can vary and I think that's that to me is extremely useful just just having that as part of everyday life to some extent for me not a big extent but it's there I think a little bit yeah

So in terms of definitions...

which we need, but we don't need it to be exhaustive.

So consciousness, of course, we need to define it in some way, because otherwise I might be talking about birds or airplanes or something.

No, I'm talking about something we're all intimately familiar with.

We've already been talking about it a lot.

But in terms of a definition, I do like Thomas Nagel's definition, and this goes back more than 50 years now.

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