Anil Seth

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

We have general anesthesia.

It's not a perfectly connected thread, but there is some kind of thread.

But I think the experience of being me now compared to being me at five years old, many more things have changed and have stayed the same.

It might be.

It might be this feeling of being alive is actually the only thing that's stayed.

And even that has occasionally been interrupted by anesthesia.

But is that me?

Then I think that's the point, isn't it?

That this basic feeling of being alive is so basic that...

all the things that we think of as characteristic of a self aren't there anyway.

So what continues is consciousness, but not self.

But we have this experience of something continuing.

We have this experience of identity.

And it's picking out something.

But it's just as our experience of color is,

seems to be revealing an objective independent future of the world you know our experience of self seems to be revealing some independent some you know persistent unchanging essence of me I think those two that's just not the way it is that our experience of self is tracking something it's tracking you know all the ways the brain has about perceiving and interpreting the body uh

the way perspective is formed, relations with memories over time, relations with other people, all of these things play into the experience of self that unfolds for a human being in every moment.

Nowhere within that network of processes is one thing you'd point to and say, oh, that's the self.

The cost of taking ourselves too seriously, I think.

Yeah, probably a high price is paid, I think.

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