Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth | TED
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Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
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Ah yes watching this during an existential crisis in the middle of the night was a great idea
part of the reason some ppl are killing themselves is not having a bathtub
what video? i hope that this video will give me a reason to take life seriously,
Ender Wolf
Ender is a great first name for somebody who is going to wind up killing themselves.
lol I'd be questioning my existence too If I was a fucking Weeaboo
Ender Wolf - I Love You
"Brain is the most important organ" says the Brain.
Manish Pradhan
My brain believes it’s the heart lol
😂 cute
@@lavish_1717 And does your brain mean heart, the organ that pumps or the abstract word used in songs? Btw I like your last name. It's so Lannister🦁😀
...and the genetalia disagree...
Tell that to your stomach [ 2nd ] Brain 📌
“With a greater sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder” ♥️
🩷
Yes, remember the wonder you saw in the, world, when you were very young. It's still there kids 🙂
With the sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder
I don't know why recently everytime I read a comment referring a speech from the video it auto delves into that part as if the comment is being read for me. Lmao
Concidence!
Or a billion more questions. But yes my sense of awe and wonder definitely grows greater than before with each revelation. So does my respect for nature.
Saw this video a while ago but I just rewatched it, and I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen on CZcams. His presentation is wonderful and engaging, and what he says is up to date with neuroscience.
Great speaker and great video!
"We're all hallucinating all the time, even right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality" - Anil Seth
Best. Quote. Ever!!!
The feeling of consensus (and perhaps other people :-) is part of the constructed reality too.
I recommend you to listen to one of Alan Watts lectures called The Human Game. It explains in a phylosofical manner how we get attached to this false sense of self (the hallucination) and how it cause us to disconnect from our nature and therefore suffer
@@rafaelstabile2387 sounds interesting
What does that actullay mean?
@@jennesis777 I suggest that you don't take things so literally. The quote is funny. That's all, folks!
Get a hobby.. you obviously have too much free time on your hands.
“Imagine being a brain”
My brain: *Tries to imagine being a brain*
😂
Yunus Ali Akbas,
Most of what people call scientific facts are based upon dogmatic assumptions closing so many doors to possible areas of research.
One of the dogmatic assumptions is that the universe is made out of unconscious matter, there's no consciousness in stars, in planets, in plants, in animals so they ought to be any in us either. So they've spent over a century trying to prove that we're not conscious at all.
and your brain knows you can do better THAT'S the secret once you get there one will know. Nirvana. Wow
You're not a brain you're a soul imo
Ye we are souls experiencing what this world has to offer through these physical vehicles🙌
Right off the bat you got me with you because when I had surgery and I got put under, I remember my eyes getting heavy and I fell asleep and right as my eyes closed, they opened back up again. That's how it felt to me. I woke up in the recovery room after surgery and it felt like I had fallen asleep and woke up again immediately like when you're in class and tired and catch yourself drifting. It'd actually even several hours
The Buddha once said “we are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts, and with our thoughts we create the world”.
The 1st time I ever read that quote, I instantly understood it was meant in the literal sense.
"When we agree about our hallucination, we call that reality.."..nailed it with that one
Bullshit.
The only problem with that statement is that without consciousness there is no hallucination.
@@Corteum that's true. But what separates consciousness from physical matter? One is tangible and the other is not right? So basically one has to exist to give a reference point for the other.
@@Shlogger You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. - Plotinus
@@Shlogger I think what separates consciousness from physical matter is the fact that consciousness cannot be represented in its entirety by purely mathematical or physical descriptions. The primary features or qualities of consciousness (subjectivity, awareness, attention, perception, emotional experience, etc) simly don't meet the definition of a Newtonian object (which has mass, shape, momentum, charge, etc).
There's not even a definition of consciousness in any biological, physics, or mathematical text book. We ourselves don't even know how to get subjects out of objects i.e. we know of no process by which conscious entities can be derived from unconscious matter or by computational process. I think it's really an empirical question, though... Something we'll have to figure out by careful experimentation and observation.
"What we call reality is, in fact, nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination." - Terence McKenna
I don't know why you would receive 67 likes for that quote since it can be taken in several different contexts.
@@Mick0722MX thats the point lmao, they all took it how they wanted
@@amysteriousdisease7168 Yeah, but the problem is that some of the contexts are based on bullshit. That's why elaboration is a good thing.
McKenna was in for a rude awakening when he died lmfao! All his mind altering tripping could never compete with death! There are many dimensions in the universe and mind altering chemicals will take you to a few of them for sure, but that is not the experience that the soul has at death,the soul/consciousness does not need a brain , so with that said everything that was said in this video was out of context,so is irrelevant in the case of death! How do I know this ? I have died and have had eyes to see and ears to hear and thoughts that where as if I was still alive, the soul/consciousness is like the Sun/Son we are a immortal ball of Plasma consciousness! Some of us know this it is for the world to figure it out! But not through any heartless science that does not include spirit in the creation.
@@Mick0722MX Care to elaborate?
A masterpiece of speech, especially his final, closing words. Thank you.
His final words were a lie..there os absolutely something to be afraid of in the afterlife...the human body is not a product of evolution it is a creation
"We predicted ourselves to reality"
What a statement because of these i can understand how other creatures perceive the same reality In different ways because they predicted themselves as they are right now.
"There's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing at all"....he knows something....
Yes, he's saying there is nothing. Just like when you go under general anaesthetic... there is nothing. You're consciousness is switched off.
Forever nothing. But you are not aware of it. kinda scary
@@mikolajlew363 kinda scary? It's the most terrifying thing ever, by far.
@@mikolajlew363 forever nothing but being aware of it would be way worse
Yeah none of yall understand that theres no such thing as nothing, you would have to compare that to something which would automatically make it something. We are immortal beings having a material experience
"We dont just passively perceive the world, we actively generate it"
Yeah, that's what he said in the video. You don't have to make a comment repeating it.
How do I turn the render distance up and generate a few more chunks then?
Your mind generates it after it observes it. Don;t let the internet ruin your good mind.
@@ArtisanTony you did not generate the world that occurred naturally
Definitely words worth highlighting!
To be relaxed, present and accepting of what is, in my current surroundings, is quite possibly the best method I've ever found of dissolving my many negative emotions.
"With a greater sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder and a greater realisation that we are a part of and not a part from nature"
The guy has a way with words. that's a powerful statement.
I love it.
I hate the "Nature vs Nurture" dichotomy and how it began.
As a musician, after spending a lifetime (over 50 years) playing piano, the instrument feels like an extension of my body and as much a tool for self expression as my lungs, larynx, mouth and tongue. Could it be that mastery (of anything) is when the brain assimilates the tools of expression as part of the human body, and that that is what is meant when a samurai says, ‘I and the sword are one.’ 🤔
@Ruben O. ‘better’ but not necessarily assimilation. I know plenty of musicians who play well but cannot ‘speak’ through their instruments. That’s what I’m alluding to, as in the ‘fake arm’ experiment, where the brain believes the fake arm is the real arm. So, the musical instrument becomes an appendage of the biological body with the brain using it as a tool of expression.
As if you are one
@@RavensHouseOfTarot1111 Yes
@Ruben O. Be music.
That is shorter.
i don't know if you would sense physical pain if i tried to stick a fork into your piano, but maybe it's more of a gradual thing. similarly you could maybe think of a vehicle as an extension of your body when you're driving it
"we are definitely a part of Nature not apart from it" nice quote.
Maybe nice quote, but maybe that is wrong too, like everything? Who knows?
@@ozanercan2469 what does it even mean to know anything
@@npc4416 I don't know.
@@ozanercan2469 How are we not part of nature?
@@tesseractharpy6138 well nature no longer selects us since the advent of medicine, maybe we are no longer part of it. Even though we still need it
Fantastic presentation. When I juxtapose what the Anil is saying with the fundamental nature of mind according to the Shakyamuni Buddha (the first Buddha) they match perfectly. In the eastern philosophical traditions the idea that our mind creates reality and that our perception of reality is limited is well understood. Really enjoyed the talk.
Wow, I'm amazed! Once of the best Ted Talks I've ever watched. So engaging and informative! Beautiful!
I unfortunately went into phycosis once and started hallucinating and having vivid dreams and nightmares and sleepwalking. I can remember most of my hallucinations and in that moment it time it all felt so real, I died multiple times laying in my bed starting at the wall just thinking that this is what death is, "the last thing you see before you die" I believed i was dead so much that I even pissed myself and wet the bed as a 21 yr old because I felt I had to pee and I thought I was dead so I couldn't move, I couldn't feel my body, so I just let it go. All the hallucinations were so real that I remember the feeling of my friend touching my arm, even thought he wasn't really there. And one point I was able to control my dreams and hallucinations but I wouldn't wish going through that on my worst enemy. I feel so bad for people that just know that as life, there is no way for them to get better. So whenever you see that homeless man yelling at nobody and talking to himself, just know that he is suffering in one of the worst ways possible
Why is this comment not with more likes than the ones by people hating on Anil for being a "materialist" (all the while probably succumbing into consumerism themselves)...
Caine S
That’s so sad:(
Thank-you for your story. There’s a great lesson there and I hope we all keep that in mind.
Same here brotha...i have never been able to be the same...i was once succeful and family guy...i still somewhat young but i have been left mentally cripled..one thing though it seems the only way i fail the mission is if i kill myself...so its a struggle everday to complete my mission here in life whatever it is now....
Emmanuel Sanchez
You’re very brave. You are strong. It’s hard to even begin to live at times when you’ve gone though something so intense and terrible. I’m really proud of you for choosing to live your life, that’s very commendable, really.
Take care of yourself, and please never lose hope. Your life can be put back together, one piece at a time. Though it requires a lot of dedication, you can do it. You’re tiny, things won’t be exactly like they were before anymore, but a happy, safe future is still worth fighting for.
Keylow 89
Oh:( That sounds like a horrible experience to have, believing it’s actually happening to you when it isn’t. How do you think it’s your brain protecting you? Just curious, if you’d like to answer.
That's the type of title that cause an existential crisis in my mind before I even click on the video..
Really? Because it soothes mine.
Fucking tell me about it.
Edit: I finished watching the video. It's undoubtedly worth watching. Very insightful, and compelling.
littlesometin Really? I find it dizzying and thrilling ......😂
Set- Tes, You're spot on my man. I was drawn to it, like a Moth to a flame.
The sooner you accept determinism, the sooner you accept it was all inevitable ;)
Psychedelics seem to allow you to break the cycle of human perceptual contiguity just like anesthesia. Good vid.
Read Carlos Castanada’s
“A Separate Reality”
Not exactly a NEW idea. Frank Herbert said this 70 years ago in his science fiction. Read the book Destination Void.
@@soltrinox1 Indian mystics have been saying it for centuries. (I mean the breaking through part, not from psychedelics.) But it still isn’t common knowledge and it definitely isn’t common experience.
@@oolala53 isn't common knowledge cause people are afraid to accept it and go through with it . Its cool though , I genuinely believe the world would be a better place if everybody did psychedelics for one year
@@55320 I think presidential candidates should have had to drop three times with guidance.
Anil Seth is brilliant at so many levels. He is a brilliant scientist but what most impresses me is his ability to take very complex ideas and make them understandable to the masses and to do it in a very entertaining way. Gifted speaker.
Yes. He is good at dumbing down
I must admit.
"We're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.
"
What a load of bullshit.
It’s sick, when you think about it. Or don’t think about it.
That's an incredible statement and should be pondered upon. I deep down always new this but never could put into words.
@@Mick0722MX youre an idiot
Wait, is CZcams real? Nah it's just a hallucination when you smoke a blunt and you're about to fall asleep. xD
“all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be”- pink floyd
Wisdom, brought to you by acid. Haha, seriously though i think it is correct.. and in a way, thats kind of terrifying to me. I always hoped there was something other then just living, and then dying
Pink Floyd? The guy that became schizophrenic? Was it because of too much drugs, alcohol or reality? What do you think?
@Andrew Scott Keep your indoctrination away from thought-provoking subjects such as this. Your sense of spirituality, and the medium through which you exercise it, are no better or more correct than anyone else's.
@@williamr.lacerda8848 You're talking about Syd Barret, the founder of Pink Floyd. It was acid that messed him up. He was taking copious amounts of it, more than what one should take. Plus, he hung around leeches that laced his drinks with that stuff too
All your _life_ will ever be, but not all _you_ wil ever be. There is no death, only return to a higher state of consciousness. The remarkable studies on near-death experiences and reincarnation give very strong evidence for existence beyond death, and beyond birth too! Now take the rather ‘spooky’ and jarring, mind-bending experiences brought on by certain psychedelics, and by experiences we can all try out like astral projection and remote viewing. These will give you an experiential insight into this ‘beyond lived reality’ kind of understanding of existence that NDEs and knowledge of reincarnation can lead us to. This stuff is very real, and highly confusing - but anyone can check it out. And understanding can help us build a fuller picture of our place in the universe; in reality. Look it up! :)
I was high once then I started hearing all sounds from the outside... Then I realized I don't know what exactly is making those sounds or how far the sounds are coming from but I was assuming I knew everything... I then assumed I was just gambling what everything is
My god this is a good talk... This guy deserves an award cause he has really made sense of consciousness
My brain halllucinated this lecture? Wow I am super smart.
You r stupid. Now ur brain hallucinated that someone said u stupid.
Your brain also hallucinated you
@Hey Man you are beautifull
@Hey Man , no you just keep hallucinating this every day of your life that doesn't exist. I guess because you would rather be fat then well-built so much so that you hallucinated everyday for every how many years old you are.
Me too, I just keep getting older and more wrinkly every year that goes by, I can't seem to hallucinate or imagine the Fountain of Youth. Someone must be controlling my hallucinations again! LOL I loved your statement
@@whattodowithmemarie2452 it is not you that has controle. You as a person are part of the play of consciousness. Everything appears in consciousness. Consciousness experiences itself through different forms.
"Your mind, if you have one, is not in your head. Instead, your head is in your mind." Alan Watts
thedarkmoonman That's solipsism
"It is amazing what doesn't exist in real world. For example in the real world there aren't any things, nor are there any events, that doesn't mean to say that the world is perfectly featureless blank. It means that it is a marvelous system of wiggles." Alan Watts
I agree with you 'thedarkmoonman.' At the beginning he says “consciousness is all there is” and also says that “without it, there is no world, there is no self, etc.” What he forgets is that it is consciousness that knows about the brain (a piece of flesh that cannot talk) as well. In other words, one can say that without consciousness there is no brain (i.e., we wouldn’t know that there is a brain). Experiencing consciousness is what happens during spiritual practices.
Mind = Blown
I was thinking of Alan Watts while watching this. He has a wonderful view of consciousness.
Incredible seeing this guy live. What a legend!!!!!
Our individual consciousness never dies ,we travel to an existence that until we die is unknown to us. When I went into a deep meditation once I experienced leaving my body and seeing a vast expansion of universal space , nobody can take this away from me, it was real and the conscious mind does not need the body to survive. Science does not have an answer for everything !
what did you see there and why do you claim it to be real?
I guess all those who were within the blast radius of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still around according to you?
"Science does not have an answer for everything, but my subjective experience does"
@@gLitCheRR44this is so true 😂
@@gLitCheRR44Well your subjective experience creates the belief in materialism lol
Them: You're Tripping!
Me: We're all tripping, man!
["9/6/20, Science was/is used as "magic" to enslave humanity, so innerstanding true science is going to be required in order to break free. (Ultimate Warrior)"]
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Turns out that is a compliment .
I read this in a stoner/ surfer voice and it has made me lol. Brilliant comment haha
@@captainciz hahaha spot on!!
When you look outward you dream but when you look inward you awaken.
yes
My life's work has been a preparing for the outcome.
Carl Jung?
Absolutely beautiful
Thats deep
Understanding that everything that we do results from the calculations of our central nervous systems and that the input to those systems seems to be things like genes, hormones, and experiences, makes it easier to forgive ourselves and others. It’s amazing how much we agree with each other!
"when the end of consciousness comes, there's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing at all." 👏👏👏👏👏
What does that mean, that left me in a mystery does that mean, he means that there is no end to consciousness and that we are still gonna be a continuous experience of life or the world that we are hallucinating in or even perhaps saying that there is far more then that there is now
Gentle, articulate, and mindfuck. Three rare qualities in a single video.
It shouldn't be funny for LMAO
"you don't have to be smart to suffer, but you probably do need to be alive." Really says much about how we treat other living being that aren't of our own species.
Who eles read this soon as he spoke this !
So true, wish more people would consider the suffering we inflict on billions of animals every year
We should treat others in ethical way, not because they are intelligent, but they are SENTIENT. This applies to other species of course.
yup time to go vegan...
How about what it say's in regard to how we treat our own species?
Isn’t it wonderful we can think? There is always opportunity to reach fir a better feeling thought. No matter what all joy and suffering comes from within. 🤩🙏
I was relieved when he finally picked up the hand and started talking about it. I thought I might have been the only one seeing it.
Suffering from anxiety/depression. I can confirm that "self" feeling is just a feeling and it can be ripped apart very easily. It's horrific to feel empty to not feel your body and to not feel your personality anymore. It feels like.. i would assume death would feel like that. I think in other words its called depersonalization. A true nightmare to live like that. Feels like you do not exist anymore.
Know exactly what that feels like but here is the antidote to all that grief. Just understand that what you call your 'self' is a bundle of thoughts going round in your head telling you life is difficult and upsetting when in actual fact, your true self is a formless and deathless being of pure conscious energy that negative thoughts can't influence. Death will feel like a transition between your current incarnation and the next reality, please don't fear it at all.
@@bodhiapurva3887 Maybe not the best thing to say to me cuz i've attempted suicide and might attempt again. But if you're right then it's good that i'll leave this place and transition into another place. I wish i was so sure about afterlife as you are. Then i would leave this world in an instant.
@@carnifex8 The main issue with leaving this realm is that the next reality could be harder to cope with. At least you are familiar with your current existence and can solve some of the problems by understanding the way they affect you. For example, the thoughts that keep going round in your mind are habitual and watching them is the way to reduce these to a minimum, replacing them with positive ones that don't make you feel so bad about life. Hard at first but as you decide to change your outlook, your depressed feeling will be less of an influence.
@Eduardo Candeias I hope it's true cuz it really feels like we are our body and we are our minds and nothing more special. When i had severe depersonalization it really felt like i had 0 personalities left in me. I just felt nothing at all. No emotions no personality nothing everything was gone no living energy either. Just going through the days in an "automatic" gear not really having control of anything anymore. Scary stuff. But yeah.. it's all damn anxiety. It really feels like you're goin crazy bonkers full force.
@Eduardo Candeias The reason why our personalities can fragment into many parts is down to identifying with the many thoughts that pass through our minds. Paying too much attention to these thoughts is what causes anxiety. We have developed habits that have become ingrained and reversing this process is necessary to become free of the excessive mental activity. Keeping watch over what we think is a basic way of cultivating increased awareness of the nature of the mind.
No matter what the explanation for everything we experience is, the fact that there is anything at all to experience is a most humbling and fascinating thing. It would be wise to remember that whether you are an anti-realist philosopher, or a religious zealot, neither of you actually KNOW the truth.
iNSiPiD1 YOU DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH.
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
« the fact that _there is anything at all to experience_ is a most humbling and fascinating thing.»
What do you mean?
Aren't you aware of your actual experience?
I love the message at the end... about there being nothing to be afraid of at all... Science and understanding is beautiful.
It's called 'education', and it beats ignorance every time.
when the end of consciousness comes, we have nothing to be afraid of... that is a powerful statement
❤❤
Our perception of reality changes reality.
Woke plus I'm not the thinker
I do agree somewhat. There is something Profound... Something that we are missing by this "Observer" phenomenon.
Gizmo Wiz I learnt this off of lsd
Our perception of reality is reality.
@@robbex2840 haha
I'm not *schizophrenic* I'm just _bad at hallucinating._
Or maybe schizophrenia is just a condition where the brain gives more weight to internal hallucinatory stimulation than exterior hallucinatory stimulation?
Chop Shop limes disease is just inflammation caused from plant toxins and is cured by eating 100% carnivore diet. You heard it here whenever.
Emil Dabrowski You are most welcome , spread the word. Took me 23 years to find that out and cure myself.
@Get Real - Love is Action Even God plays with dice .
YES
This is amazing. Thank you for the knowledge! This is a puzzle piece that put a lot of ideas together.
Not exactly a NEW idea. Frank Herbert said this 70 years ago in his science fiction. Read the book Destination Void.
The best speech I've ever heard, BRAVO!!!
"Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."
- Zhuangzi -
Thank you Dark.
"When we agree over our hallucinatioon we call it reality". Perfect.
Maura Ribeiro one thing is memory mind, and another alucinations , and another to really what is going on
I click on this video, but didn't watch it through ... I just imagined it by hallucination. lol
Lame! Any Logic 101 student should be able to see the self-contradiction in this pop philosophy. This lame philosophy is as old Democritus and Descartes, just dressed updated with new experiments, but as with ancient scepticism, it embodies the same naive fallacies.
Perfectly incoherent.
Yep it's a LIE.....just because the majority AGREE does NOT make it REALITY .....it makes the majority WRONG lol...this is fairly common sense and simple mathematics....ANYONE who has EVER done enough REAL hallucinogenic substances ALREADY KNOW that reality IS reality and theres absolutely NOTHING mankind can do about THAT HOWEVER the majority CANNOT accept THEIR REALITY so they MUST observe it through a filter (allowance the psychological misperceptions a mankind) due to the emotional deficiencies known as the "human condition" which allows for things like religious beliefs or such nonsense as FREE WILL to be prevalent OVER reasonable logic .....humans are NOT mature enough as a species YET( still NOT even a type ONE intelligence lol) to be able to accept ANYTHING ELSE at THIS point in time LOL
wow, I would stand up for an ovation, definitely :)
truth is simple, isn't it?
please be as kind as you can to all conscious creatures (my Self, this is a request to you, too)
This video is in the direction of a possible explanation to Enlightenment. This video makes more sense to Yogis (meditators). Thanks for sharing this master piece
When we agree on "reality," it's because we are similar creatures with similar experiences. When a rare individual comes with a different view, he may be labelled either a genius or a madman depending on how many people he is able to convince.
Best fucking comment on here
The earth is flat and dinosaurs aren't real pass it on
Epic
@@erickquintero1142 You're not convincing me...
the true mark of a genius (i think) is holding and sharing that wisdom with no desire for others’ approval. whereas madmen will cast pearl after pearl before swine
"We predict ourselves into existence." That quote really got me.
yeah, but its also a marriage between prediction and reality!
This guy can craft the scientific nuances so eloquently, I feel like I'll go to college for studying neuroscience
I like it. Maybe that can explain the reason why we don't recall memories from our very early childhood.
@@domsaint8791 I do recall memories from my very early childhood.
Obvious problem: Who or what does the predicting? Calling it 'we' makes the proposition manifestly nonsensical!
Anyone who takes the time read/ any advice greatly appreciated as I’m struggling with this on a daily basis and what steps to take in my life now..
wisdom of the masters as narrated by Samaneri Jayasara can sometimes can explain this dilemma. The experiences of Acahn Boowa are very relevant.🙏
"Tried to tell y'all this >2,500 years ago..."
--The Buddha
I know right
Shame on you🤣
You can make a religion out of this
Lol. I just got done typing almost the same thing. Awesome. Good to see. Namaste to you
Buddha just copies Hinduism and Jainism. He's a joke.
Being unable to understand a person's speech when you can't see there lips move because they are wearing a mask is a good example of your brain taking guesses
Understanding someone perfectly through a phone call nullifies your claim
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 When you can't hear the person's sound, brain.exe still trying to make best guess with lips move
More accurately, some syllables can be mistaken for one another when one cannot see lips. Such as the classic 'va' and 'ba' auditory illusion. This also occurs in the 'yanny - laurel' debate that was popular a few years back
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 I believe when you talk to someone but they mumble or say something that you didn't understand at first but your brain fills in the gaps with context from your conversation and experiences, also in this case, reading lips. Having a mask cover your lips makes it harder to recognize mumbled or indistinguishable speech. When ur on your phone your brain doesn't have the visual information but it still tries to fill in what you didn't understand with context and personal speech experience. It does the same thing over the phone except with one less variable to help. And if you still can't make out what was said, then that's when people ask the other person what was said and to repeat it.
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 No it doesn't. The brain has already predicted a phone call and that that comes with it. Face-to-face conversation the brain predicts differently. Maybe that's where the muffle comes from lol
Thank you Abil Seth for this information! I’m so grateful.
This explains why I love falling asleep and being asleep, and also okay with dying, but absolutely terrified of anaesthetic and going under for surgery.
The experiment @ 11:11 has been re run and this time they … hit the plastic hand… the subject has said the perceive the pain !! Our body uses pain to makes us aware of possible organic. Damage and prevents us for hurting ourselves . Even sending a pain impulse where there is actually NO INJUIRES AT ALL ( he went though a long brushing first …)
I am bipolar / borderline my perception shifts all the time .
When I am down I see myself ugly
When I’m up I look hot .
I love this channel ❤
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises in our thoughts,
and with our thoughts we make the world."
-- Dhammapada
Dhammapada OR JESUS. 😂
@@camilleroseministries Same difference. We are all you. And you are all of us.
Rather....you are what's aware of those thoughts. Consciousness that is - HempYoda
@@richedge8667 yep its you getting mugged and it's you doing the mugging. You get to experience everything. Just not at the same time. Not everyone sees this so the mugger thinks he's getting the upper hand on someone not realizing he will have to experience the other end of that stick eventually. Or perhaps he already has. It's not something we can fully comprehend in this form. It's like trying to explain to your cat why you're getting divorced.
The best quotes are from some guy no one has ever heard of. -- Mahatma-Coat n' Shoes
'you don't have to be smart to suffer but you probably need to be alive'
Brilliant quip
It is a cool quote. I'm not certain ultimately that our suffering is more than a warning light on a car dashboard.
One of the most important talks about the brain I've ever watched.
Anil Seth does Not exactly have a NEW idea. Frank Herbert said this 70 years ago in his science fiction. Read the book Destination Void.
I dont know why i am crying watching this, not a sad cry, but more like somewhat "acceptance cry" perhaps? I feel overwhelmed but also feel calmed about human existence. He's right, we shouldn't take this all for granted.
Absolutely loved this! “We don't passively perceive the world, we actively generate it”
One day I woke up and didn't know who I was. For a moment I didn't even remember my name. There was no identity. Looking back, my identity is one big hallucination that momentarily stopped functioning.
Cap
You were hungover. It’s normal.
@@liveitloveitswimit421 no at that moment I was fully present, no prior alcohol and/or drugs involved.
This happened to me and turns out it was Dissociative Identity Disorder 😅
I don't think most people experience this, ever.
When I was young I had anasthetic and came around. I had an excellent sense of time, self and everything. Let me put it to you that the brain is non-computational, and no generalisations can be made that really get to a point where you can understand it
Perceptions play such an integral role. We have to careful what we feed our minds. Wow,so we have controlled Hallucinations =Reality. Thank you for this
Dude this is like a lot for a wensday night.
No time like the present, bucko.
@koomy hehehe
I read this comment exactly at 11 pm on a Wednesday night lol
Durrr..........its Saturday.😂
whooa its actually wensday night tonight @@@@
After my sister died, I began questioning the meaning of life and my existence. Not a fun place to be but it lead me to begin researching NDEs (near death experiences) and one in particular grabbed my attention. Dr Eban Alexander had an extraordinary NDE in the early 90's after suffering from a bacterial infection in his brain. Within hours he was in a comatose state and went on to go into another realm. He vividly describes being surrounded by love and taken on an incredible journey where he learned the true meaning of life and consciousness. What struck me the most about his takeaway was that he stated our brains are merely a filtering system. Much like the display screen of a computer and that the actual hard drive is what we know as God or The Source. We are spirits experiencing life as human beings. Our brains simply help us tune out the true reality so we can live in this physical 3D realm if you will. Our consciousness or soul is eternal and we never die. It sounds far out but the more I look into NDEs and tie that into what the scientific community is discovering about consciousness and quantum physics it all ties in together and begins to make sense.
Hi Rachel - I find the similarities between DMT experiences and NDE very interesting. You may find it interesting too
What he is trying to say is that according to theory from quantum mechanics it happens to be the case that there are a possibility of many die mentions existing in math this is just in math this guy thinks that you know there's a dimension where chairs control people like your pic and Morty stuff like that we haven't really crossed that so I don't know he's getting this from I think he's just trying to spread his religious propaganda and until we actually find existence of the graviton and realize what it is if itA particle then we can basically say we have found this theory of everything we have tied gravity with Quan Tom Cuanto mechanics and as such we will know if they actually are multiple of them dimensions and then we can say yeah this guy was right all along
Please search on youtube for the NDE from Natalie Sudman, Afterlife TV with Bob Olson. There are 4 or 5 interviews with her. Learned so much from her. She is such a nice woman!
Yes almost anyone who look into NDEs with minimal open mindedness will come out with your conclusions as well
@Mike McKay See, your conclusion doesn't take into consideration the fact that we didn't just pop in this planet, in the exact form that we have today, at some point the life on earth was just a single cell organism just like our cells in our bodies, with basically no consciousness, just a mechanism. And even if what you say is true, where did that eternal spirit come from and so on. It is a never-ending question.
Religion is just a really old theory that tried to answer the question of how we came to be based on what people knew at the time. Basically, a legend if you will. Its human nature to find answers even if that's a guess.
I still use this video / these thoughts to switch perspective in some arguments. It's unbelievable how low the awareness / education about a topic this important still in 2022.
Dear person reading this you are so flexible and so open to possibility!😀 I love it!😀
This is essentially the brain trying to understand itself 🤯
the universe
Needy Cat Came here to say just that. It’s star dust trying to understand itself.
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.....
Sacred G ᚠᚫᛞᚱ love it
The universe created consciousness in order to understand itself
wow he was an AMAZING public speaker. i don’t think he stuttered even once. great job!
Going to watch this a few more times to digest it more comprehensively, then it can accompany my reality/perception 😎
Alucinante! Una verdadera alucinación controlada esta charla, estoy leyendo su libro BEING YOU, y es fabuloso punto por punto
We are not humans having spiritual experience. We are all spiritual beings having human experience.
Sanjay Muraleedharan 🙌🏽 Never more wonder than when you believe this. 💜🌸💜
Great way of putting it.
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Sanjay Muraleedharan are we now? As if being a spiritual being is some how separate than being a human being 🤔
Does a front exist without a back? Does concave exist without convex?
Fox FBI there is no such concept as a front without back, or such a thing as good.. without evil
Nothing complicated about that :D
"When we agree about our hallucinations, we call it reality"
Such a deep and beautiful phrase.
Such Bullshit! so because we are think therefore i am? thats dumb because reality exist regardless of our consciousness
@@clarkkent52 everything is what it is because we agree it is. The sun is the sun because we said it is. Water is water because we said it is. We made up descriptions about things that sounded right, and came to agreements, and that’s why things are how we know them in our everyday lives like cars, beds, houses etc. without us humans, what would anything be? We gave names and ideas to what everything we see is. Everything without us, is simply matter .
@@Alantexans888 So the ontological status and truth values of things are relative to our agreement? Is that objectively true or relatively true?
yes if the past society don’t brainwash us to be like these maybe we have our own different reality but again there is something in our consciousness that tells us to be a part of a group or the urge to connect with others so we have awareness of group and hierarchy that when the brainwashing starts
@@GravitySk8boards the ontological status of things is relative truth, no? Where are natural laws such as gravity etc are objective realities.
This is my very favorite Ted talk. I come back to it and share it with other people all the time. The end always brings tears to my eyes; I find it so comforting, especially the way he says it. Thank you Anil.
Super fascinating talk. As a Christian, i am so grateful that there is a powerful, loving, and personal God that actually wants to relate to me and that i don't just have to trust my own hallucinations to help me navigate through reality.
Precisely. We are slaves to our senses. God create our senses therefore knows our exact limitations.
"we're all hallucinating right now, but when we all agree upon it, we call that reality". Truer words were never spoken. I have thought of this when I was 12-13 years ago, and when I told my friends, they started laughing..
One of my teachers calls is "consensus reality." probably not his own term. But remember, consciousness is doing all, even showing up as consensus reality.
GREAT!
BUT!
Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
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Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed.
@@oolala53 I senses you are replying to the comment right?
I would of laughed too
Imagine thinking of something like that at your early ages. Big brain
but why are we all hallucinating the same
We all have the same hardware
Ask two people who ate shrooms together. They see what we don’t
Mass hysteria
Society, propaganda, culture, education plus avatar(genetic) that's what making you yourself. Move to another country and after 1-2 generations your child's will adopt there and will act and do things same way that people in that country doing.
Arman Chilingaryan hmmm
Thank you for this amazing and lucid explanation.
this just gave me a whole nother thought process on anxiety and how it affects bodily health
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
lol
Pry open your third eye !
Hamamatsu
Lolololol.....
Yep
The best take on consciousness on CZcams
What he said at the end “When the end of consciousness comes, there is nothing to be afraid of...NOTHING at all.” Geeez dude, I’m both in blissful awe and terror of the anticipation at the same time!!
It’s a very dark point also, why religion was primarily made up, to end suffering is to end life
You fall asleep everynight.. Your consciousness ceases..Are you afraid of anything? Nope. Because you no longer are conscious to experience anything: Including Time.
Uhm when you are sleeping you know you are conscious because you know you are dreaming Lmaoooo
@@effortlessawareness8778 Technically when you're sleeping you're still conscious. That's why sensations such as noise or touch can still wake you up
@@effortlessawareness8778 sleeping is not a loss of consciousness. Anesthesia is.
Thanks for that nice talk. As a psychiatrist treating hallucinated patients, I have told the most educated ones that the mind had to use its hallucinating skills not only for making up dreams, but also to make up "reality" during wakefulness. In order to decrease their feeling of being abnormal, I also tell them that "hallucinations" are just bits of dreams when they are awake.
Precisely. I believe you are telling them the truth.
Yes, I think so too. Thanks.
J. Bruno Debruille People like you ruin lives.
Why?
J. Bruno Debruille Thank you for asking.
“...there is nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all.” Yes we are afraid of “nothing” and it is terrifying.
I applaud you - this was a most wonderful, intelligent and inspired lecture. you've said it all .... almost .....
may God bless you.
He would be offended by the last line
The alien college student who started our universe as a science project:
”They are evolving...”
For real
And where did the aliens come from? How did their existence begin? How did they begin learning? Why do you just take for granted their existence without going further with your questions?
@@aminbinsalim1995 I was just joking. All available evidence points to the fact that God kickstarted our universe. If not He kickstarted the universe from which someone kickstarted us.
@@giuliofrancis8524 Your response is surprising and actually seems sound to me, i'd say i agree with you but i'd like to add that even in the second hipothesis you made ultimately the first kicker i.e God would still be the actual creator.
@@giuliofrancis8524 I would love to see some evidence of this god lol
this video helped me understand advanced Buddhist teachings much better. To our brain, everything is an illusion and conscious perception of a self creates duality and thus reality. Now it all makes a lot of sense.
As a wanna-be Buddhist for maybe half my life, I would agree that this offered a fresh perspective on something some part of "me" already understood. All of this was said so well.
I deeply agree. Having interest in buddhist philosophy for several months now and understood (at my scale oc) Anatta, mordern science really brings something wonderful to the table and this video is amazing for that.
@@julelemaitre The Buddha knew much about the human mind. Nobody can deny that, that's for sure.
Ok bro tell that to the kids starving in Yemen rn
@@gordonpapi2931 My good sir, I must ask you, how is that relevant to the conversation ? And also, have you seen the whole video ?
Spectacular. Thank you!
5:28 I am stunned by your example of the shades of grey. Even after looking at for a minute, I could not see it. Now I can.
We are brainwashed since 6 or 7 to believe that we learn the most important things in school. In fact i`v learned more important things on CZcams and on books. Things about myself.
I think school main purpose is to make you an active worker of the society. It does not care too much about your inner self as long as you are fit to help society as a whole. In my opinion public school is shaped as a socialist attitude towards knowledge.
It is also serving the evolutionary principle where the survival of the species is more important than the life of individuals.
At least this was my experience but maybe there are newer systems of teaching nowadays.
Constantine ya but schools important cause it will help you get a job, but trying to pursue a career in philosophy and studying consciousness is hard to do
The internet is fantastic but I've definitely learned more from books and school more than the internet. School is extremely important whether you enjoy it or not. You're learning soo much about the universe through school. Also in the fictional reality, we live in education is needed. If you're not learning anything in school than you probably just don't care enough or the education system is failing you.
@@javen69 Yes but what I'm trying to say is that the main purpose of school is to teach and form you to be productive for the society. It is a more of a socialist attitude towards knowledge. It does not help you learn about yourself. It does not care too much about you as long as you are able to meet the needs of society. It uses uses you. It's part of the evolutionary system he is talking about . Evolution doesn't care much about each individual life and needs as long as the species survive.
@@Constantinesis I see, you make a good point. Can't deny that but I'm just saying that there is a positive side to school. Although what you said may be the reality of things it's nice to know things that don't matter if that makes any sense.
School makes no sense think about it for a minute. It is there to baby sit children and to make them obedient. They don't remember what they are "taught" its a sham. We all know it and nobody will ever do anything about it. Nobody really wants good change. Change means doing things differently, we are creatures of habit.
This guy is dressed like he just left the matrix
PaidLancer hahaha #dead
PaidLancer hahahaya
or a trip to india
Fucking brilliant dude 😂
HAHAHAHA, True
Our entire consciousness is a literal ball of eternal light energy, from Fathers light. It not only circulates in the center, or around the heart of our vessels chest, but, throughout our entire body.
"Everyone is quoting quotes , so i thought of doing one " Best Quote I have heard !
"imagine being a brain"
Well, I kinda am.
Hlalakar scientist trying to understand brain cells , is brain cells try to understand themself
Note find way to ask brain a question and get honest answer 🤔
We are way more than our brains.
@@TheRyanmiller25255 The brain is the only organ that named itself.
@@hlalakar4156 dumb lol , everyone knows that
These kind of videos make me think, at what point are we learning too much. Is it helpful, and could it be easier to live in ignorant bliss like so many do.
Great question🤔
Does something need to be helpful? Should you try to live easier?
@Lumine Moon and robots are becoming able to adapt
@Lumine Moon czcams.com/video/chukkEeGrLM/video.html&app=desktop
@Lumine Moon I agree totally but it’s important to acknowledge that we are all terribly ignorant about so many things, this is equally true for the most knowledgeable people in existence