Anil Seth

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

Also, there's a Kantian form of transcendental idealism, which is also, I think, fairly compatible.

And I feel reasonably at ease with that, which is there is this numinant, the way things really are, which we will never know.

And all we can have access to is some indirect reflection of that.

That's very much like this view from the brain as an inference engine, a prediction machine.

So it's there.

But then again, in the everyday world in which I live and work, it helps me to think of the brain as a physical object and then of consciousness as having phenomenological properties and still doing the work of figuring out how they relate to each other.

Well, I would say the two are pretty much the same thing.

So the phenomenon of life is...

is the process that unfolds with a particular mechanism.

Yeah, I mostly agree.

This year, actually, there was a meeting in Germany with David Chalmers.

It's 30 years since he wrote his book, famous book, The Conscious Mind, in which he talks about the heart problem.

And Dave...

was asked to reflect on the 30 years, and I think his summary was, the hard problem is still pretty hard.

And I think he's right.

It's still mysterious.

We still don't know how to fit consciousness into our broader picture of nature.

I think the mistake is when we

We recognize that, but then make the further claim that, well, we've made no progress and we don't understand anything.

And I think that's just wrong.

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