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.