Anil Seth

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1,118 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Now, that's not true for all illusions.

And that's another interesting thing about perception.

Sometimes what we know can change what we experience and other times it doesn't.

Well, I think this is a really excellent point.

You don't have to go to octopuses or mantis shrimps.

You and I will have slightly different brains, so we'll experience the same shared objective reality.

We are sitting in the same room, but even you and I might be experiencing things slightly differently.

Maybe you see the color of my shirt in a slightly different way to how I see it.

And it's very easy to ignore that because probably...

the differences between you and me aren't super dramatic.

So we'll still use the same words like light blue or something like that.

You mentioned the dress.

The dress, that image, like over 10 years ago now, and half the world saw it as blue and black and the other half saw it as white and gold.

That was super interesting because the differences between individuals was so unexpectedly large that people for the first time realized

Hold on a minute.

How is it possible for you to be looking at that and have such a different experience to mine?

I think there's a really important lesson there, which is a lesson in perceptual humility.

It seems as though what we see is real.

It seems as though it's not dependent on the specific peculiarities of my own brain.

So then it's very easy to assume that everyone else is going to have the same experience.

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