No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and one of the world's leading experts in consciousness research. His TED talk Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Experience has captivated over 17 million viewers, and his groundbreaking book Being You explores the incredible mystery of perception and consciousness. Buy Being You (It's Genuinely Great) - https://amzn.to/4ccATng Your brain is constantly hallucinating your reality—it's predicting, guessing, and making mistakes every moment of your life. Understanding these hallucinations can radically alter your view of what’s real, what’s illusion, and how your emotions are truly made. Expect to learn why the famous ‘dress illusion’ broke the internet, how your brain invents colors that don't objectively exist, why emotions aren't reliable signals but brain-generated best guesses, whether your kitchen exists when no one’s observing it, why AI might never experience true consciousness, how optical illusions reveal the brain’s hidden mechanisms, and much more ... 00:00 Why Your Brain Hallucinates Your Reality 02:30 The Dress Illusion That Broke the Internet Explained 07:15 Your Brain Lies About Color (and You Believe It) 12:40 Messi-Shaped People: How Peripheral Vision Fools You 17:35 The Shocking Truth About Optical Illusions 23:10 Why Your Emotions Are Just Guesses from Your Brain 29:02 The Rickety Bridge Experiment: Misunderstood Arousal 34:00 Cold Showers, Pain, and How Your Brain Tricks You 38:15 Does Your Kitchen Exist When Nobody Looks? 43:50 Panpsychism, Conscious Agents, and Reality as an Illusion 49:30 Why Consciousness Might Require Life 54:05 Could AI Ever Become Truly Conscious? 58:40 How to Know When Your Brain Is Lying to You 1:02:30 The Strange World of Synesthesia: Letters Coming Out of Mouths 1:06:10 Why Meditation Helps You Decode Your Brain’s Lies 1:10:25 Anil Seth’s Biggest Insight from Studying Consciousness ... Follow My Neuroscience Podcast - The Giants Shoulder Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5... Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast... Get the Comfiest Sleep Mask on the Planet at https://bit.ly/4ilzfBL (use Code GIANTSMANTA10)