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Anil Seth: Perception as Controlled Hallucination

TED · Talk · YouTube title: Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED
Why it's here

HN cites it whenever threads touch consciousness, perception or predictive-processing, especially for its examples of expectation changing what you perceive.

What it covers

Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues in this TED talk that perception is a controlled hallucination: the brain constantly predicts the world and our shared agreement is what we call reality. He also touches on the construction of the self.