Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, explains the link between perception and reality. Seth believes reality as we know it comes from activity of our brain. Following is a transcript of the video.
Anil Seth: How do we know that we experience the real world? In fact, we probably don’t. Everything that we perceive, everything that we experience, is a result of the brain interpreting the sensory information that comes in in a particular way.
I’m Anil Seth. I’m a professor of neuroscience at the University of Sussex in the UK. Now you could say that all of our experiences are all hallucinated. It’s just that whenever we agree about what’s out there ... Read even more