Consciousness and perceiving the self | Anil Seth

Consciousness and perceiving the self | Anil Seth

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Anil Seth breaks down the properties of consciousness and how they relate to our perception of the self.

00:00 Self change blindness
01:16 What is consciousness?
03:11 The problem of consciousness
08:20 Properties of consciousness
09:12 The brain is a prediction machine

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Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? After over twenty years researching the brain, world-renowned neuroscientist Anil Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and the self.

#ConsciousnessDefinition #AnilSethBeingYou #SelfPerceptionTheory

Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. His TED Talk on the brain has had close to 12 million views and he is the author of multiple books alongside his blog, NeuroBanter.

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