Psychological
Reality: The Brain's Greatest Illusion
Your brain isn’t capturing reality — it’s *inventing* it. Moment by moment, consciousness stitches a world together from best guesses, not raw data. What you think you see is just **a hallucination tuned by survival**.
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The thinker
Consciousness neuroscientist
Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex and author of the bestselling book *Being You*. He has led groundbreaking research into perception and consciousness, co-directs the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and has one of the most-watched TED Talks on the science of consciousness.
Based on Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | TED, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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