Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
You are constantly hallucinating and your brain is the drug.
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Our world is not real. Okay, that might be a bit dramatic, but our experience of it isn’t exactly accurate. When you hold your phone in your hand you can never say for certain that you know what it feels like, when you drink burned coffee, that bitter flavour isn’t really coming from your awful beverage, and when you see the colour red you can’t be 100% sure that it’s the same hue everyone else sees.
That’s because you are constantly tripping out, and your brain is the drug. If a hallucination is the experience of uncontrolled perception, perception is a controlled hallucination, and that control is monopolised by the pink sponge in your head. It’s the translator of sensory signals, the nervous mess expecting things to happen, and the supercomputer which uses all that to predict the future.
So if we never experience the world directly, but instead through the lens of our brains, then our experience of existing has little grounding in reality. Our consciousness is a creation of our own imagination… Confused? Scared? Angry for some reason? Don’t worry – Anil Seth is here to clear things up.
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You are constantly hallucinating and your brain is the drug.
Subscribe to Think Inc. → bit.ly/33tJYEN
Our world is not real. Okay, that might be a bit dramatic, but our experience of it isn’t exactly accurate. When you hold your phone in your hand you can never say for certain that you know what it feels like, when you drink burned coffee, that bitter flavour isn’t really coming from your awful beverage, and when you see the colour red you can’t be 100% sure that it’s the same hue everyone else sees.
That’s because you are constantly tripping out, and your brain is the drug. If a hallucination is the experience of uncontrolled perception, perception is a controlled hallucination, and that control is monopolised by the pink sponge in your head. It’s the translator of sensory signals, the nervous mess expecting things to happen, and the supercomputer which uses all that to predict the future.
So if we never experience the world directly, but instead through the lens of our brains, then our experience of existing has little grounding in reality. Our consciousness is a creation of our own imagination… Confused? Scared? Angry for some reason? Don’t worry – Anil Seth is here to clear things up.
This video comes from our Outside The Box event series - live online events that feature prolific speakers whose ideas will challenge and change the way you see the world. Find out more at https://thinkinc.org.au/events/outside-the-box/
ABOUT THINK INC.
Think Inc. is a community of individuals on a mission to expose the true face of modern society. Armed with ideas, we defy the stale conventions of learning by shifting the world’s attention to global ideas, while opening minds.
We’re not on the fringe. We are trendsetters with the power to shift perceptions and reshape the face of the mainstream.
In 2014, Think Inc. launched with the mandate of creating a community where ideas can be shared, challenged, voiced and became a champion of democratising ideas. On this foundation, Think Inc. has grown into a powerful collective.
CONNECT WITH US
Join our mailing list → bit.ly/think-sign-up
Check out our store → bit.ly/ao-think-store
Website: https://thinkinc.org.au/
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#anilseth #consciousness #neuroscience
