Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality, Anil Seth

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. 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 Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You re welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with peop