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Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality - Anil Seth

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When you wake up and open your eyes, a world (or at least your bedroom) suddenly appears. This is the mystery of consciousness: how do the billions of brain cells inside your head generate the experience of "being you?" Join neuroscientist Anil Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.

When you look something like a red chair, where is the "redness?" Is it in the chair, in your brain, somewhere else, or nowhere at all?

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