Our world is not real. Okay, that might be a bit dramatic, but our experience of it isn't exactly accurate. That's because you are constantly tripping out, and your brain is the drug. If a hallucination is the experience of uncontrolled perception, perception is a controlled hallucination, and that control is monopolised by the pink sponge in your head. It's the translator of sensory signals, the nervous mess expecting things to happen, and the supercomputer which uses all that to predict the future.

So if we never experience the world directly, but instead through the lens of our brains, then our experience of existing has little grounding in reality. Our consciousness is a creation of our own imagination...

Confused? Scared? Angry for some reason? Don't worry - Anil Seth is here to clear things up.

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We shouldn't be here. Not really, anyway. The chances that one day trillions upon trillions of atoms would all come together and make a sentient little sack of anxiety are unimaginably small. Yet here we are, wandering around the Earth, asking the question "why us?!" When you really think about it we might just be a cosmic joke - creatures aware enough to know the big questions, but not smart enough to answer them.

If your little bundle of atoms worry about the odds that you'd be here to worry in the first place, then this is the podcast for you. Sean Carroll dives head-first into the biggest mysteries of of our universe, unraveling the preposterous nature of the very fabric that makes up our world.

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2020 has been a tumultuous year with the protests in Hong Kong exposing the methods used to dismantle a democracy, the Aussie bushfires serving as a grim reminder of the impacts of climate change, COVID-19 putting the world on pause, and the protests in the US shining a spotlight on the country's systemic issues - and we're only halfway through the year!

Understandably all of this can be too much to handle, so it's important to know how to remain resilient, even in the face of these extreme situations. One of the greatest poets of our generation, Luka Lesson, shares his wisdom on how to bend, not break, when life doesn't go your way.

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Think Inc. is a community of individuals on a mission to expose the true face of modern society. Armed with ideas, we defy the stale conventions of learning by shifting the world's attention to global ideas, while opening minds. We're not on the fringe. We are trendsetters with the power to shift perceptions and reshape the face of the mainstream.

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The globe is in the midst of a viral pandemic. Economies are going belly-up, trickling to a halt, while economists speculate that a recession is coming-or is it already here? Many will lose their livelihoods. Others will suffer even more. Grim enough for you? But when the dust clears and the human species crawls out after months of hibernation and a severely restricted lifestyle, what will our future look like?

Technology Futurist, Geopolitics Specialist, and Sci-Fi Novelist Dr Jamie Metzl is here to tell you!

ABOUT THINK INC.

Think Inc. is a community of individuals on a mission to expose the true face of modern society. Armed with ideas, we defy the stale conventions of learning by shifting the world's attention to global ideas, while opening minds. We're not on the fringe. We are trendsetters with the power to shift perceptions and reshape the face of the mainstream.

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