A Need To Read

BEING YOU: Consciousness, Dreams and the Self with Prof. Anil Seth


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Professor Anil Seth is a Computational and Cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Sussex. His book Being You was a Sunday Times Bestseller. 

 

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In this podcast we discuss:

  • Anil’s latest project ‘The Dream Machine’
  • What dreams are for?
  • How your brain creates experience 
  • How we see colour
  • Why we all see things differently 
  • What happens to your brain on Psychadelics
  • What happens to your brains when you learn something new
  • The illusion of Self
  • Free Will 
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