Anil Seth

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

And when they don't, it's a real lesson that actually...

None of us see things as they really are.

We all see them in our individual unique way.

We all experience a unique world even for a shared objective reality.

This always makes me think of the echo chambers in social media that we're all too familiar with.

And it's very easy when you get deep into an echo chamber, it becomes almost impossible to understand how somebody else could believe something different.

And I often use the example of a dress to illustrate that danger.

I mean, the dress is, no one really cares whether the dress is actually blue or black or white or gold.

It doesn't really matter.

It's not a high stakes aspect of reality.

But in many of our other echo chambers, we are disagreeing, becoming polarized about things that matter.

And if you can show that even for something as unimportant as a dress, we can differ so dramatically, I think that kind of opens a bit of space.

to consider how our beliefs might be similarly constructed and may not reflect things as they really are.

I think they definitely cannot be the full picture because I don't think it even makes sense to say

they can be the full picture.

And here's where Don Hoffman and I agree a bit, that evolution didn't really care about giving us the full picture, whatever that might even mean.

What would it mean?

That we would experience quarks or superstrings or photons?

No one even knows what a photon is.

It's some kind of field in quantum phone.

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