The Modern Science of Consciousness, Part I: The Neuroscience of Consciousness

Explore the Modern Science of Consciousness and take a journey through the neuroscience of perception. Learn how your conscious experience may be a controlled hallucination constrained by reality. This short miniseries may leave you questioning the nature of your existence.

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[jiohdi]

we are not a soul within a body but an avatar of a body within a universe within a soul... we are reality dreaming about itself.

[charlesgregory]

I have experienced what I call "fill in the blanks" when hearing someone speak. I kept hearing someone say their name was "Tunisia", very clearly "Too-nees-yah", until I asked them to spell it: "Taneesha", and then when they said there name again, my brain correctly "heard" the sounds "Tah-neesh-ah". The first vowel shifted, the "sh" appeared and the slight "ya" sound disappeared. But she didn't speak it any differently. My brain was compensating for poor hearing.

[yogaman]

My takeaways:



"We see what we expect to see." -Dr. Georg Keller

"We’re hallucinating all the time. When we agree, we call it reality." -Dr. Anil Seth

We actively generate our idea of the world.

"To put the conclusion crudely — the stuff of the world is mind-stuff." -Sir Arthur Eddington

Normal perception may be a fantasy that is constrained by reality.

This is related to what’s going on in our brain as we experience consciousness rather than why consciousness exists in the first place.

[Paulus_Brent]

Where is the news? Everyone knows that we don't see reality as it is.