…around the nerve endings or a reality, a virtual reality display produced inside the head, or in the words of Anil Seth in his new book, it's a controlled hallucination, that our brains produce a controlled hallucination and it's all inside the…

…kind of 3D full color representation of the external world as a kind of controlled hallucination, to use the words of Anil Seth, the neuroscientist. So that's the official theory, and does it really make sense? The more traditional theory, which is believed…

…but what you make of it and what you project out is different. So, I think this is actually absolutely standard modern theory. Anil Seth, whose book Being You was a bestseller a year or two ago, is really a materialist theory of the mind. He's a…

…presentations by graduate students. practically all on sort of hardcore materialist views of consciousness. One of the star speakers was Anil Seth, with whom I had a debate, as you know, in Bergen, Norway, the Holberg debate. The debate was called, Does…

…this year's debate is the question, Does consciousness extend beyond brains? On the panel, we are proud to have Professor Anil Seth of the University of Sussex, Professor Tanja Lormann of Stanford University, and author and biologist Rupert Sheldrake. We are…

…turn. They will have approximately 15 minutes to convince you of their heresy. And our first speaker this evening is Anil Seth. He is one of Britain's leading neuroscientists, head of cognitive computational neuroscience at University of Sussex, which is, I…

…with you. So what am I? Am I just a product of a holography of your mind? Well, no, the neuroscientist Anil Seth here in Britain calls it a controlled hallucination, that our perceptions are controlled hallucinations. I'm perfectly happy with that idea…

…brain. So inside your brain, there's me, there's the whole of this tent as a kind of virtual reality display, what Anil Seth, the neuroscientist, calls a controlled hallucination inside your brain. The other view is that when we see things, the images we…