#301: Professor Anil Seth - Are We Living In a Controlled Hallucination?

Anil Seth is a Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where Anil is the Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Anil is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness. Anil is the Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press); sits on the Editorial Board of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and on the Advisory Committee for 1907 Research and for Chile’s Congreso Futuro. My sincere apologies for any audio issues. My microphone broke prior to recording, so I had to use an external microphone, and I was sick with the flu at the time of recording. Both of those issues are now resolved, and normal service will resume next week. In this conversation today, Anil and I discuss some of the biggest topics that scientific and philosophical questions in existence, such as: - What is consciousness? - Where does consciousness arise from? - What happens after death? - When will be able to measure how conscious we are? - Why our brains are 'hallucinating reality' - Much more Connect with us: https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter​ (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter) https://instagram.com/freedompact​ https://twitter.com/freedompactpod Email: freedompact@gmail.com https://Tiktok.com/personaldevelopment Connect with Anil: Website https://www.anilseth.com Twitter https://twitter.com/anilkseth Instagram https://www.instagram.com/profanilseth/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profanilseth Buy: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness https://amzn.to/3q6k2P1 Be a participant in the 'Perception Census': https://bit.ly/3qjpTRi