How does the brain construct reality?

Do you perceive red the same way I do? What is wrong with the textbook model of vision? Why do brains have so many internal feedback loops? And what does any of this have to do with Plato’s cave, Ernest Hemingway, or artificial neural networks that perceive dogs everywhere? Join Eagleman with guest Anil Seth, author of “Being You”, to explore the scientific problem of consciousness.

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More Information:

Seth A. Being you: A new science of consciousness. Penguin; 2021 Oct 19.

Eagleman D. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Pantheon.

The Perception Census from Anil Seth and Fiona Macpherson.

Inner Cosmos Episode 17: What is consciousness?

Inner Cosmos Episode 86: What are emotions? with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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