How does your brain create your sense of self? Part 2 with Anil Seth and Michael Pollan

Name: How does your brain create your sense of self? Part 2 with Anil Seth and Michael Pollan
Uploaded: 2026
Duration: 27 min

202627 minHD★ 7.7Science & Tech

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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