Anil Seth

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

And it's very, very simple.

It's perhaps almost circular.

But he says, for a conscious organism, there is something it is like to be that organism.

It feels like something to be me.

It feels like something to be you.

What does it feel like?

It depends.

It could be very minimal, maybe just a feeling of being alive.

But most of the time, there's all sorts of other things going on.

But any kind of experience is enough.

Wherever there's experience, there's consciousness.

Wherever there's consciousness, there's experience.

It can be.

One of the confusions that our field is plagued with is that all of these words can be used in different ways by different people.

So sometimes people use consciousness to refer to something

social, perhaps even political, you know, you raise the consciousness of the people, you raise people's awareness, so they become more sensitive to things going on in society.

Sentience sometimes goes the other way.

So sometimes people use sentience just to mean that an organism is

or system is sensitive to something.

So, you know, a tree might be sensitive to light and maybe it's sentient.

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