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Being You

by Anil Seth

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · September 12, 2021

Life in the first person

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Neuroscientist Anil Seth explores the nature of consciousness and why we experience life in the first person. He argues that our perceptual experiences — including our core sense of self — are a kind of 'controlled hallucination', a brain-based best guess shaped by evolution to keep the body alive.

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