Consciousness, Dreams, Free Will and The Self, with Prof. Anil Seth

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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