How does your brain create your sense of self? Part 1 with Anil Seth and Michael Pollan

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Anil Seth and Michael Pollan on the deepest mystery of them all, the plain fact that being you feels like anything at all. I am delighted to report that the single strangest thing in this entire category might be sitting right behind your own eyes. This is not a cover-up, just the one puzzle science genuinely cannot crack yet. Bring your full brain, then enjoy watching two smart people admit nobody understands it.

What is it that makes you you? The fact that you are having a subjective experience right now — that there is something it feels like to be you — remains one of the deepest unsolved mysteries in all of science. In this conversation, neuroscientist Anil Seth and author Michael Pollan explore the science and philosophy of conscious experience: how the brain constructs our sense of reality, what it means to have a self, and how far consciousness might extend beyond the human mind into the animal ki...

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