Being You: A New Science of Consciousness with Anil Seth |

Being You is not as simple as it sounds. 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 Professor Anil Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. His unique theory of what it means to 'be you' challenges our understanding of perception and reality and it turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
About
Anil Seth is a leading British researcher in the field of consciousness science. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. He writes regularly for New Scientist, Guardian and the BBC, and has been interviewed on Radio 4's The Life Scientific. His TED talk on consciousness has been viewed nearly 8 million times; he is currently a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow and he tweets at @anilkseth.

[@seokheanteoh7097]

Love this lecture! I share it all the time. This is a new science for improving the world especially medicine, inner perception regulate health.😊

[@Nnamdi-wi2nu]

From my perspective, human consciousness is outside the human person not inside, and it's in the form of field like all other fields like quantum fields or electromagnetic field. Human brain is a highly organized system that finds a way to steadily interact with this conscious field and lights up the human person.
Any system or structure that becomes complex enough will also interact with this conscious field (hence conscious being). This why we should be careful the way we propagate our electric technology.

[@jeanetteogden-barker1952]

The Dreamachine sounds like an incredible experience and wondered if there was an intention to offer it again or to offer it in a commercial experiential setting.

[@prateekshapawar8854]

Dr. Seth, I am sorry, but I think the brain knows more than we would believe it to know.
Your lecture is very interesting.

[@Nnamdi-wi2nu]

These hallucinations mechanism of the brain approach of making sense of the world is actually remarkable, but with what mechanism are we able to sit down and reason out this process. Like sitting down listening to people like Anil Seth explain how the brain perceives the world around it should take a different process from that of hallucination mechanism. So this other attribute where does it come from, is it still another properties of the brain and mind or what.

[@zachmorgan6982]

Anil Seth is the man.no woo woo. Just science

[@anialiandr]

Thank you. ❤

[@user-kz6iu7jk3i]

We are still in Plato’s Cave - but research is to be encouraged

[@stuff4826]

of course, how else have we been evolving. we get caught up in local time, but another million years of this and we wont even remember a cave. well definitely have new factors telling us how hopeless our efforts are hehe, and thank god for that.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

We are still in the material age. Consciousness being created by the physical brain is the equivalent of the electricity that emits light being created by the lamp.

[@kdsquire99]

Discuss at 26:00 is perfect for undergrad classes comparing traditional IP models to new ones.

[@GreenPartyofMalaysia]

Being You:
A Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth
Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.
Consciousness is the great unsolved mystery in our scientific understanding of the brain. Somewhere, somehow, inscribed in the brain is everything that makes you you. But how do we grasp what happens in the brain to turn mere electrical impulses into the vast range of perceptions, thoughts and emotions we feel from moment to moment?
Anil Seth, one of Britain's leading neuroscientists, charts the developments in our understanding of consciousness, revealing radical interdisciplinary breakthroughs that must transform the way we think about the self. Drawing on his original research and collaborations with cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, brain imagers, virtual reality wizards, mathematicians and philosophers, he puts forward an exhilarating new theory about how we experience the world that should encourage us to view ourselves as less apart from and more a part of the rest of nature. Seth's revolutionary framework for consciousness will turn what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.

[@catglash]

I'm both amused and terrified

[@carolinehoogendoorn6497]

So interesting. I wish I could ask Anil Seth questions, for example: icw the checkerboard, when you (I) look through your (my) eyelashes, you see that the two squares are the same colour. I always thought that we see the colour as different because of the effect of the white colour around the square, and vice versa with the other square. This effect is gone when you look through your eyelashes (the squares look the same). I paint, and this is what fine-painters do when observing reality to paint it. The fact that we see the square as darker does not have anything to do with the thought that it is in shadow, so it is not an anticipatory effect of the brain. Or do you mean that the brain (eye-mechanism) is hard-wired for this effect simply because of the darker colour around the white square and vice versa? I still do not see a direct connection with the "shadow"-thought, which I think is what you are putting your emphasis on. ??

[@stuff4826]

what about the million or so light funnels catching protons in our eye. they arent even synchronized...ridiculous

[@freeze.yty_228]

존나좋아 진짜 ㅜ

[@tenaciousspectre3383]

Are you sure about that? we have actual Alien sighting footages now

[@billiverschoore2466]

... brought to you via a screen...? 🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚