Anil Seth

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

It would be to not take our worlds or ourselves for granted.

That there's wonder and awe in the simplest of experiences of opening your eyes and a world appearing.

And we should celebrate the everyday miracle of being conscious.

Do you have, what's going on?

Lots going on.

I mean, so one thing that's occupying a lot of time is this idea of the debate around consciousness and AI.

And partly because of just what's happening in tech at the moment.

So I am writing another book, but it's going to be more about...

how what's happening in AI can help us understand ourselves better.

We can use AI as a constructive mirror in this way by putting the focus back on what makes us not the same as AIs.

So that's going on.

We also have, I think, a fascinating project back to these strobe lights that give people visual hallucinations.

When we did this, I was working with a group of people a few years ago now, and we did this at pretty large scale in the UK.

So we got 40,000 people to have visually induced hallucinations with strobe.

And we found quite a lot of people reported feeling improvements in their mental health afterwards.

Now, this might be just because they had a nice time for 90 minutes and were looked after well.

But there's also the possibility that we're tapping into something similar to how psychedelic therapy might work for conditions like depression.

We've talked about this in earlier parts of this podcast that

Altered states of experience can, you know, the psychedelic people talk about it's shaking the snow globe.

It can take us out of perceptual habits and it may open up a space of recognition that our experiences can change, even if our objective circumstances don't.

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