"We're all hallucinating all the time, even right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality" - Anil Seth Best. Quote. Ever!!!
I recommend you to listen to one of Alan Watts lectures called The Human Game. It explains in a phylosofical manner how we get attached to this false sense of self (the hallucination) and how it cause us to disconnect from our nature and therefore suffer
@@jennesis777 I suggest that you don't take things so literally. The quote is funny. That's all, folks! Get a hobby.. you obviously have too much free time on your hands.
@@Corteum that's true. But what separates consciousness from physical matter? One is tangible and the other is not right? So basically one has to exist to give a reference point for the other.
@@Shlogger I think what separates consciousness from physical matter is the fact that consciousness cannot be represented in its entirety by purely mathematical or physical descriptions. The primary features or qualities of consciousness (subjectivity, awareness, attention, perception, emotional experience, etc) simly don't meet the definition of a Newtonian object (which has mass, shape, momentum, charge, etc). There's not even a definition of consciousness in any biological, physics, or mathematical text book. We ourselves don't even know how to get subjects out of objects i.e. we know of no process by which conscious entities can be derived from unconscious matter or by computational process. I think it's really an empirical question, though... Something we'll have to figure out by careful experimentation and observation.
To be relaxed, present and accepting of what is, in my current surroundings, is quite possibly the best method I've ever found of dissolving my many negative emotions.
Finding peace through presence and acceptance is a powerful method for dissolving negative emotions. This practice emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and being attuned to the moment. It’s amazing how such a simple approach can have profound effects on our mental and emotional well-being, offering a path to inner tranquility and resilience.
But it’s also one of the hardest things to do. Takes years of practice in my opinion for it to become apart of your life that truly rules over all of your thoughts and decisions
@@okchaz6634 It's sounding like you're expecting a solution to give you results very quickly. Like anything worthwhile, the more you practice the better you become.
Emotional are like weather, I like all weather including the most violent and depressing ones, sadness is poetry and rage is life, the sunny emotions are nice too
Yeah none of yall understand that theres no such thing as nothing, you would have to compare that to something which would automatically make it something. We are immortal beings having a material experience
Yunus Ali Akbas, Most of what people call scientific facts are based upon dogmatic assumptions closing so many doors to possible areas of research. One of the dogmatic assumptions is that the universe is made out of unconscious matter, there's no consciousness in stars, in planets, in plants, in animals so they ought to be any in us either. So they've spent over a century trying to prove that we're not conscious at all.
As a musician, after spending a lifetime (over 50 years) playing piano, the instrument feels like an extension of my body and as much a tool for self expression as my lungs, larynx, mouth and tongue. Could it be that mastery (of anything) is when the brain assimilates the tools of expression as part of the human body, and that that is what is meant when a samurai says, ‘I and the sword are one.’ 🤔
@Ruben O. ‘better’ but not necessarily assimilation. I know plenty of musicians who play well but cannot ‘speak’ through their instruments. That’s what I’m alluding to, as in the ‘fake arm’ experiment, where the brain believes the fake arm is the real arm. So, the musical instrument becomes an appendage of the biological body with the brain using it as a tool of expression.
i don't know if you would sense physical pain if i tried to stick a fork into your piano, but maybe it's more of a gradual thing. similarly you could maybe think of a vehicle as an extension of your body when you're driving it
He emphasized on nothing. The way I took that was he was saying when we die, that’s it, we’re dead, just ceasing to exist anymore. So you shouldn’t be afraid of something you’re not going to be aware of anyway. I could be way off but that’s how my brain hallucinated that 😊
@@I_dont_want_an_at Yea I got the impression this presenter believes all consciousness is the result of matter interactions and biological brain signals, though there's no evidence of that from my understanding and none presented here. What makes something self aware/conscious is still a great mystery in scientific studies.
I unfortunately went into phycosis once and started hallucinating and having vivid dreams and nightmares and sleepwalking. I can remember most of my hallucinations and in that moment it time it all felt so real, I died multiple times laying in my bed starting at the wall just thinking that this is what death is, "the last thing you see before you die" I believed i was dead so much that I even pissed myself and wet the bed as a 21 yr old because I felt I had to pee and I thought I was dead so I couldn't move, I couldn't feel my body, so I just let it go. All the hallucinations were so real that I remember the feeling of my friend touching my arm, even thought he wasn't really there. And one point I was able to control my dreams and hallucinations but I wouldn't wish going through that on my worst enemy. I feel so bad for people that just know that as life, there is no way for them to get better. So whenever you see that homeless man yelling at nobody and talking to himself, just know that he is suffering in one of the worst ways possible
Why is this comment not with more likes than the ones by people hating on Anil for being a "materialist" (all the while probably succumbing into consumerism themselves)...
Same here brotha...i have never been able to be the same...i was once succeful and family guy...i still somewhat young but i have been left mentally cripled..one thing though it seems the only way i fail the mission is if i kill myself...so its a struggle everday to complete my mission here in life whatever it is now....
Emmanuel Sanchez You’re very brave. You are strong. It’s hard to even begin to live at times when you’ve gone though something so intense and terrible. I’m really proud of you for choosing to live your life, that’s very commendable, really. Take care of yourself, and please never lose hope. Your life can be put back together, one piece at a time. Though it requires a lot of dedication, you can do it. You’re tiny, things won’t be exactly like they were before anymore, but a happy, safe future is still worth fighting for.
Keylow 89 Oh:( That sounds like a horrible experience to have, believing it’s actually happening to you when it isn’t. How do you think it’s your brain protecting you? Just curious, if you’d like to answer.
McKenna was in for a rude awakening when he died lmfao! All his mind altering tripping could never compete with death! There are many dimensions in the universe and mind altering chemicals will take you to a few of them for sure, but that is not the experience that the soul has at death,the soul/consciousness does not need a brain , so with that said everything that was said in this video was out of context,so is irrelevant in the case of death! How do I know this ? I have died and have had eyes to see and ears to hear and thoughts that where as if I was still alive, the soul/consciousness is like the Sun/Son we are a immortal ball of Plasma consciousness! Some of us know this it is for the world to figure it out! But not through any heartless science that does not include spirit in the creation.
Saw this video a while ago but I just rewatched it, and I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen on UA-cam. His presentation is wonderful and engaging, and what he says is up to date with neuroscience. Great speaker and great video!
@@Tash25432 Stfu nerd, you don't need to be so rude; I too can read wikipedia. Neuroscience is such an evolving field that it's impressive nonetheless.
@@Tash25432 This commenter you refer to as asinine commented 3 years ago. Yours was a decent comment before the unnecessary insult. Hey YT, Where does someone learn to be like this? (Asking anyone but this person)
His final words were a lie..there os absolutely something to be afraid of in the afterlife...the human body is not a product of evolution it is a creation
The power of a well-crafted speech lies in its ability to resonate and inspire, and it sounds like this one did just that. The closing words often leave the most lasting impression, encapsulating the essence of the message. It’s wonderful to see how such impactful communication can evoke deep appreciation and gratitude. Truly a masterpiece of delivery.
Suffering from anxiety/depression. I can confirm that "self" feeling is just a feeling and it can be ripped apart very easily. It's horrific to feel empty to not feel your body and to not feel your personality anymore. It feels like.. i would assume death would feel like that. I think in other words its called depersonalization. A true nightmare to live like that. Feels like you do not exist anymore.
Know exactly what that feels like but here is the antidote to all that grief. Just understand that what you call your 'self' is a bundle of thoughts going round in your head telling you life is difficult and upsetting when in actual fact, your true self is a formless and deathless being of pure conscious energy that negative thoughts can't influence. Death will feel like a transition between your current incarnation and the next reality, please don't fear it at all.
@@bodhiapurva3887 Maybe not the best thing to say to me cuz i've attempted suicide and might attempt again. But if you're right then it's good that i'll leave this place and transition into another place. I wish i was so sure about afterlife as you are. Then i would leave this world in an instant.
@@carnifex8 The main issue with leaving this realm is that the next reality could be harder to cope with. At least you are familiar with your current existence and can solve some of the problems by understanding the way they affect you. For example, the thoughts that keep going round in your mind are habitual and watching them is the way to reduce these to a minimum, replacing them with positive ones that don't make you feel so bad about life. Hard at first but as you decide to change your outlook, your depressed feeling will be less of an influence.
@Eduardo Candeias I hope it's true cuz it really feels like we are our body and we are our minds and nothing more special. When i had severe depersonalization it really felt like i had 0 personalities left in me. I just felt nothing at all. No emotions no personality nothing everything was gone no living energy either. Just going through the days in an "automatic" gear not really having control of anything anymore. Scary stuff. But yeah.. it's all damn anxiety. It really feels like you're goin crazy bonkers full force.
@Eduardo Candeias The reason why our personalities can fragment into many parts is down to identifying with the many thoughts that pass through our minds. Paying too much attention to these thoughts is what causes anxiety. We have developed habits that have become ingrained and reversing this process is necessary to become free of the excessive mental activity. Keeping watch over what we think is a basic way of cultivating increased awareness of the nature of the mind.
Wisdom, brought to you by acid. Haha, seriously though i think it is correct.. and in a way, thats kind of terrifying to me. I always hoped there was something other then just living, and then dying
@Andrew Scott Keep your indoctrination away from thought-provoking subjects such as this. Your sense of spirituality, and the medium through which you exercise it, are no better or more correct than anyone else's.
@@williamr.lacerda8848 You're talking about Syd Barret, the founder of Pink Floyd. It was acid that messed him up. He was taking copious amounts of it, more than what one should take. Plus, he hung around leeches that laced his drinks with that stuff too
All your _life_ will ever be, but not all _you_ wil ever be. There is no death, only return to a higher state of consciousness. The remarkable studies on near-death experiences and reincarnation give very strong evidence for existence beyond death, and beyond birth too! Now take the rather ‘spooky’ and jarring, mind-bending experiences brought on by certain psychedelics, and by experiences we can all try out like astral projection and remote viewing. These will give you an experiential insight into this ‘beyond lived reality’ kind of understanding of existence that NDEs and knowledge of reincarnation can lead us to. This stuff is very real, and highly confusing - but anyone can check it out. And understanding can help us build a fuller picture of our place in the universe; in reality. Look it up! :)
"you don't have to be smart to suffer, but you probably do need to be alive." Really says much about how we treat other living being that aren't of our own species.
Right off the bat you got me with you because when I had surgery and I got put under, I remember my eyes getting heavy and I fell asleep and right as my eyes closed, they opened back up again. That's how it felt to me. I woke up in the recovery room after surgery and it felt like I had fallen asleep and woke up again immediately like when you're in class and tired and catch yourself drifting. It'd actually even several hours
I've had dreams during anasthesis. Very nice ones too. I didn't know how long I'd been under 10 mins or hours. That was twice. I wonder if it's just that the anesthesia wasn't strong enough because other times I dreamt nothing.
Your experience under anesthesia is a fascinating example of how our perception of time can be distorted. It’s incredible how the brain can make hours feel like mere moments, underscoring the mysterious nature of consciousness. Such experiences remind us of the intricate workings of our mind and the profound mysteries still to be explored within the realm of neuroscience.
Thanks for sharing!... I'm about to go through surgery and general anesthesia in a couple weeks. Not sure if hearing others talk about it, makes it MORE or LESS scary...
That was my experience as well. I counted backwards from 100 hundred, never making t to 90. Then suddenly I was awake in the recovery room. I had no idea where I was, what had happened or how much time had passed. It was not lke sleep
We are brainwashed since 6 or 7 to believe that we learn the most important things in school. In fact i`v learned more important things on UA-cam and on books. Things about myself. I think school main purpose is to make you an active worker of the society. It does not care too much about your inner self as long as you are fit to help society as a whole. In my opinion public school is shaped as a socialist attitude towards knowledge. It is also serving the evolutionary principle where the survival of the species is more important than the life of individuals. At least this was my experience but maybe there are newer systems of teaching nowadays.
Constantine ya but schools important cause it will help you get a job, but trying to pursue a career in philosophy and studying consciousness is hard to do
The internet is fantastic but I've definitely learned more from books and school more than the internet. School is extremely important whether you enjoy it or not. You're learning soo much about the universe through school. Also in the fictional reality, we live in education is needed. If you're not learning anything in school than you probably just don't care enough or the education system is failing you.
@@javen69 Yes but what I'm trying to say is that the main purpose of school is to teach and form you to be productive for the society. It is a more of a socialist attitude towards knowledge. It does not help you learn about yourself. It does not care too much about you as long as you are able to meet the needs of society. It uses uses you. It's part of the evolutionary system he is talking about . Evolution doesn't care much about each individual life and needs as long as the species survive.
@@Constantinesis I see, you make a good point. Can't deny that but I'm just saying that there is a positive side to school. Although what you said may be the reality of things it's nice to know things that don't matter if that makes any sense.
School makes no sense think about it for a minute. It is there to baby sit children and to make them obedient. They don't remember what they are "taught" its a sham. We all know it and nobody will ever do anything about it. Nobody really wants good change. Change means doing things differently, we are creatures of habit.
After my sister died, I began questioning the meaning of life and my existence. Not a fun place to be but it lead me to begin researching NDEs (near death experiences) and one in particular grabbed my attention. Dr Eban Alexander had an extraordinary NDE in the early 90's after suffering from a bacterial infection in his brain. Within hours he was in a comatose state and went on to go into another realm. He vividly describes being surrounded by love and taken on an incredible journey where he learned the true meaning of life and consciousness. What struck me the most about his takeaway was that he stated our brains are merely a filtering system. Much like the display screen of a computer and that the actual hard drive is what we know as God or The Source. We are spirits experiencing life as human beings. Our brains simply help us tune out the true reality so we can live in this physical 3D realm if you will. Our consciousness or soul is eternal and we never die. It sounds far out but the more I look into NDEs and tie that into what the scientific community is discovering about consciousness and quantum physics it all ties in together and begins to make sense.
What he is trying to say is that according to theory from quantum mechanics it happens to be the case that there are a possibility of many die mentions existing in math this is just in math this guy thinks that you know there's a dimension where chairs control people like your pic and Morty stuff like that we haven't really crossed that so I don't know he's getting this from I think he's just trying to spread his religious propaganda and until we actually find existence of the graviton and realize what it is if itA particle then we can basically say we have found this theory of everything we have tied gravity with Quan Tom Cuanto mechanics and as such we will know if they actually are multiple of them dimensions and then we can say yeah this guy was right all along
Please search on youtube for the NDE from Natalie Sudman, Afterlife TV with Bob Olson. There are 4 or 5 interviews with her. Learned so much from her. She is such a nice woman!
@Mike McKay See, your conclusion doesn't take into consideration the fact that we didn't just pop in this planet, in the exact form that we have today, at some point the life on earth was just a single cell organism just like our cells in our bodies, with basically no consciousness, just a mechanism. And even if what you say is true, where did that eternal spirit come from and so on. It is a never-ending question. Religion is just a really old theory that tried to answer the question of how we came to be based on what people knew at the time. Basically, a legend if you will. Its human nature to find answers even if that's a guess.
When we agree on "reality," it's because we are similar creatures with similar experiences. When a rare individual comes with a different view, he may be labelled either a genius or a madman depending on how many people he is able to convince.
the true mark of a genius (i think) is holding and sharing that wisdom with no desire for others’ approval. whereas madmen will cast pearl after pearl before swine
"With a greater sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder and a greater realisation that we are a part of and not a part from nature" The guy has a way with words. that's a powerful statement. I love it.
["9/6/20, Science was/is used as "magic" to enslave humanity, so innerstanding true science is going to be required in order to break free. (Ultimate Warrior)"]
@Hey Man , no you just keep hallucinating this every day of your life that doesn't exist. I guess because you would rather be fat then well-built so much so that you hallucinated everyday for every how many years old you are. Me too, I just keep getting older and more wrinkly every year that goes by, I can't seem to hallucinate or imagine the Fountain of Youth. Someone must be controlling my hallucinations again! LOL I loved your statement
@@whattodowithmemarie2452 it is not you that has controle. You as a person are part of the play of consciousness. Everything appears in consciousness. Consciousness experiences itself through different forms.
I don't know why recently everytime I read a comment referring a speech from the video it auto delves into that part as if the comment is being read for me. Lmao Concidence!
Or a billion more questions. But yes my sense of awe and wonder definitely grows greater than before with each revelation. So does my respect for nature.
"We predicted ourselves to reality" What a statement because of these i can understand how other creatures perceive the same reality In different ways because they predicted themselves as they are right now.
The statement "We predicted ourselves to reality" beautifully encapsulates the essence of perception. It highlights how our brains construct our reality based on predictions and past experiences. This concept not only sheds light on human cognition but also opens up fascinating discussions about how different creatures might experience the world through their unique predictive mechanisms.
"It is amazing what doesn't exist in real world. For example in the real world there aren't any things, nor are there any events, that doesn't mean to say that the world is perfectly featureless blank. It means that it is a marvelous system of wiggles." Alan Watts
I agree with you 'thedarkmoonman.' At the beginning he says “consciousness is all there is” and also says that “without it, there is no world, there is no self, etc.” What he forgets is that it is consciousness that knows about the brain (a piece of flesh that cannot talk) as well. In other words, one can say that without consciousness there is no brain (i.e., we wouldn’t know that there is a brain). Experiencing consciousness is what happens during spiritual practices.
@@soltrinox1 Indian mystics have been saying it for centuries. (I mean the breaking through part, not from psychedelics.) But it still isn’t common knowledge and it definitely isn’t common experience.
@@oolala53 isn't common knowledge cause people are afraid to accept it and go through with it . Its cool though , I genuinely believe the world would be a better place if everybody did psychedelics for one year
"Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man." - Zhuangzi - Thank you Dark.
No matter what the explanation for everything we experience is, the fact that there is anything at all to experience is a most humbling and fascinating thing. It would be wise to remember that whether you are an anti-realist philosopher, or a religious zealot, neither of you actually KNOW the truth.
« the fact that _there is anything at all to experience_ is a most humbling and fascinating thing.» What do you mean? Aren't you aware of your actual experience?
Anil Seth is brilliant at so many levels. He is a brilliant scientist but what most impresses me is his ability to take very complex ideas and make them understandable to the masses and to do it in a very entertaining way. Gifted speaker.
@@richedge8667 yep its you getting mugged and it's you doing the mugging. You get to experience everything. Just not at the same time. Not everyone sees this so the mugger thinks he's getting the upper hand on someone not realizing he will have to experience the other end of that stick eventually. Or perhaps he already has. It's not something we can fully comprehend in this form. It's like trying to explain to your cat why you're getting divorced.
Society, propaganda, culture, education plus avatar(genetic) that's what making you yourself. Move to another country and after 1-2 generations your child's will adopt there and will act and do things same way that people in that country doing.
One day I woke up and didn't know who I was. For a moment I didn't even remember my name. There was no identity. Looking back, my identity is one big hallucination that momentarily stopped functioning.
Fantastic presentation. When I juxtapose what the Anil is saying with the fundamental nature of mind according to the Shakyamuni Buddha (the first Buddha) they match perfectly. In the eastern philosophical traditions the idea that our mind creates reality and that our perception of reality is limited is well understood. Really enjoyed the talk.
Or maybe schizophrenia is just a condition where the brain gives more weight to internal hallucinatory stimulation than exterior hallucinatory stimulation?
What he said at the end “When the end of consciousness comes, there is nothing to be afraid of...NOTHING at all.” Geeez dude, I’m both in blissful awe and terror of the anticipation at the same time!!
You fall asleep everynight.. Your consciousness ceases..Are you afraid of anything? Nope. Because you no longer are conscious to experience anything: Including Time.
Sanjay Muraleedharan are we now? As if being a spiritual being is some how separate than being a human being 🤔 Does a front exist without a back? Does concave exist without convex?
Being unable to understand a person's speech when you can't see there lips move because they are wearing a mask is a good example of your brain taking guesses
More accurately, some syllables can be mistaken for one another when one cannot see lips. Such as the classic 'va' and 'ba' auditory illusion. This also occurs in the 'yanny - laurel' debate that was popular a few years back
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 I believe when you talk to someone but they mumble or say something that you didn't understand at first but your brain fills in the gaps with context from your conversation and experiences, also in this case, reading lips. Having a mask cover your lips makes it harder to recognize mumbled or indistinguishable speech. When ur on your phone your brain doesn't have the visual information but it still tries to fill in what you didn't understand with context and personal speech experience. It does the same thing over the phone except with one less variable to help. And if you still can't make out what was said, then that's when people ask the other person what was said and to repeat it.
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 No it doesn't. The brain has already predicted a phone call and that that comes with it. Face-to-face conversation the brain predicts differently. Maybe that's where the muffle comes from lol
this video helped me understand advanced Buddhist teachings much better. To our brain, everything is an illusion and conscious perception of a self creates duality and thus reality. Now it all makes a lot of sense.
As a wanna-be Buddhist for maybe half my life, I would agree that this offered a fresh perspective on something some part of "me" already understood. All of this was said so well.
I deeply agree. Having interest in buddhist philosophy for several months now and understood (at my scale oc) Anatta, mordern science really brings something wonderful to the table and this video is amazing for that.
"When the end of consciousness comes, there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all." - Anil Seth When that time comes, he's right. But before, it's a very dreadful thought to become nothing.
i just wonder what makes you "you" and and someone else. why am i experiencing this "halucination" in this body? and not someone else's ? there is no explanation for that
You won’t become nothing. Everything we perceive is an illusion of the mind, including the brains and neurones we study. The only thing that can’t be an illusion is consciousness itself.
@@louisevanessa9082 You are half correct. Both the physical world and the conscious mind are "real", but it's with the mind that we are eternal unlike our physical bodies. Both of them influence each other, like how your environment or how you were nurtured molds how you become. And in the other way the mind influences reality, like how our free will functions independently from any causative nature. You just think of something and act on it, that is free will and has been scientifically proven to have no basis in biology or neurology. The thing with the physical world is that it is very limiting, in the literal and in the psychological sense. If someone has brain damage then they may not have the same level of intelligence but their spirit still remains. Spirit is mind. Mind is infinite.
"we're all hallucinating right now, but when we all agree upon it, we call that reality". Truer words were never spoken. I have thought of this when I was 12-13 years ago, and when I told my friends, they started laughing..
One of my teachers calls is "consensus reality." probably not his own term. But remember, consciousness is doing all, even showing up as consensus reality.
GREAT! BUT! Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...? This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it? *** Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality. The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed.
I begin my meditation classes by explaining verbatim, "we're apart of nature, not apart from nature." I'm glad we're on the same wavelength, Anil. Phenomenal talk.
And where did the aliens come from? How did their existence begin? How did they begin learning? Why do you just take for granted their existence without going further with your questions?
@@aminbinsalim1995 I was just joking. All available evidence points to the fact that God kickstarted our universe. If not He kickstarted the universe from which someone kickstarted us.
@@giuliofrancis8524 Your response is surprising and actually seems sound to me, i'd say i agree with you but i'd like to add that even in the second hipothesis you made ultimately the first kicker i.e God would still be the actual creator.
@@clarkkent52 everything is what it is because we agree it is. The sun is the sun because we said it is. Water is water because we said it is. We made up descriptions about things that sounded right, and came to agreements, and that’s why things are how we know them in our everyday lives like cars, beds, houses etc. without us humans, what would anything be? We gave names and ideas to what everything we see is. Everything without us, is simply matter .
yes if the past society don’t brainwash us to be like these maybe we have our own different reality but again there is something in our consciousness that tells us to be a part of a group or the urge to connect with others so we have awareness of group and hierarchy that when the brainwashing starts
The more I read about the brains and how they act as a machine, I'm more and more convinced that we're part of something way more advanced. Probably in a simulation.
Waking up from anesthesia rocked me, because it forced me to face the fact that when your brain is shut off you cease to exist. Even having tried psychedelics i still struggle with this realization
I know what you mean. Was put under as well during my jaw surgery. And boyyyyy did it spook me. I remember I tried so hard to stay awake but as I count down from 1 - 10 I got to 3 and thats the last I remember before waking up. Just nothingness when the brain is out. Literally. .-. Its crazzzzy
@@HoD999x I think it's that the brain is still active when we sleep, hence why we dream. Seems like anaesthesia on the other hand nearly completely shuts it all down, so it's just a blip that didn't happen.
@@ShoulderMonster But it doesn't shut down on anesthesia so even that point makes no sense. What happens to the brain under anesthesia is not too dissimilar to what happens under normal sleep.
There are a bunch of cases of people who have had a near death experience and were able to describe what was happening to their bodies in a very detailed way, all of this being confirmed later on, while they were seeing everything from a place above their physical bodies. Some people were able to see other family members and describe what they were doing and talking at that time, later on being confirmed. The stories are out there, one just have to search and be open. In my opinion, there's only one explanation, the brain is not producing consciousness, but it is a tool through which consciousness experiences the world and itself. There's absolutely no proof that the brain produces consciousness, we do not even know what consciousness is, only thing we can do is study its manifestations.
@@theTranscendentOnes Nope, I too had a few NDEs from when I was really sick, and I also had many out of body experiences, search the expression "astral projection" and see for yourself. I got the proof I need.
@@theTranscendentOnes A few stories is hearsay, thousands of stories is data. There are literally thousands of documented cases of temporary death experiences (many experienced by well credentialed scientists and academics by the way), shared death experiences (apparitions that appear to the dying and unrelated strangers in the same room), children remembering their past life, psychedelic experiences by millions, healing of seemingly irreversible ailments by mere touch, numerous paranormal phenomena, etc. that are routinely excluded by mainstream materialist science, yet point to non-material forms of energy that we are as yet unable to explain. However denying their existence is akin to denying radioactivity. Just because we have not yet "discovered" this form of energy doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Mathematics and Physics increasingly point to consciousness as being fundamental, not matter. They also increasingly point to a multi-dimensional universe. We are at the cusp of a major paradigm shift this century. The materialist dogma is on its way out and with it the view of sentient beings as being mere biological machines.
you should ask them if they saw their back in detail too because they knew own looks perfectly and what they recalled was blurred past not moment when they related it nobody has photographic memory because it doesnt exist
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.....
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
These kind of videos make me think, at what point are we learning too much. Is it helpful, and could it be easier to live in ignorant bliss like so many do.
@Lumine Moon I agree totally but it’s important to acknowledge that we are all terribly ignorant about so many things, this is equally true for the most knowledgeable people in existence
When ur consciousness goes wrong, u "lose your mind" or "go crazy" this happened to me and I was diagnosed with schitzophrenia. I realized I was connected to everything around me and I used my mind to manipulate my world.
Psychiatry is yet another HOAX! Brain is organ undiagnosed, viewed and then a dozen drugs recalled are thrown at you, in class action suits for extremely addictive qualities and horrific main effects. You're awake, aware, intuitive and perceptive, unlike the dumbed downs predominately surrounding us; IE: NPC's. Most RH -'s have uncanny intuition, very beneficial innate skills and abilities. Envious haters lack our insight, analytical thought processes, and unique traits; classify us as threats of higher intellect and consciousness. Sheeple realize maybe 1/10 of daily occurrences; comprised mainly of badly acted/executed hoaxes and chronic psyops with cry sis actwhores. They look, cannot see, and listen cannot hear what is so blatantly obvious to us who see behind the coded scripted veil.
And when you are experiencing a living nightmare, someone else is too, and another someone is experiencing an amazing day (the first one in a looong while, or just one among many). Personally just realizing statistically the chances someone is experiencing the same thing as I do right now, really helps me deal with it myself. Cheers!
The Buddha once said “we are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts, and with our thoughts we create the world”. The 1st time I ever read that quote, I instantly understood it was meant in the literal sense.
Buddha’s insight into the power of thoughts is timeless and resonates deeply. It highlights how our perceptions shape our reality, a concept that aligns with modern understandings in neuroscience and psychology. This quote encourages us to cultivate positive thinking and mindfulness, knowing that our mental landscape profoundly influences our external world. Such wisdom is both ancient and ever-relevant.
Yep and everyone creates the world through tel lie vision programming .. in 2020 if looking at statistics people would have realised they were being fed bs same with our fake (his story) And everything else, unfortunately the school system is great for non thinking and just being an obedient slave to the system
the best thing he did was to make the point that we aren't above all other nature, we are a part of it. we all need to be acting like it. The human animal is the only creature who does things out of selfishness. The rest do things to survive and out of need. Lions eat and you won't see them go trying to kill more...nope, they are satisfied. There is no drive to hunt. this was a great ted talk.
@@a.disaster2324yeah, I’d say animals can definitely be selfish and it’s just another thing we have in common with them. We know they can also be jealous or depressed, etc…
I have taken shrooms several times but I have friends who have different experiences from me. Some reported not really having any visuals even though we ingested it in the same manner. Meanwhile I was tripping and it was great.
@@209shii I’ve had similar experience where I felt I couldn’t center my thoughts as I usually could.. they kind of spiraled out of control which led to me quitting all drugs. I was an everyday weed smoker and drinker but since my trip I no longer do any drugs. Psychedelics helped me realize that I have complete control over my own happiness.
@@patrickjohnson5250 same here i trippin so hard i gave up everything jus couple months ago but ill still smoke n drink time to time 😂it felt like i was here for a reason like a mission i jus dont quite know why weirdaf
No they don’t. I don’t even know where you came up with that conclusion. It all depends on the persons mood, brain, and train of thought. This video is whack, he’s some dumbass with a lot of subscribers spewing out bullshit.
I read the book “How the brain makes emotions” by Lisa Feldman Barrett. This lecture clarifies parts of the book. I have pre-ordered Seths book “Being You”
Im sorry to ask but where you also scared of dieing as well and wondering if something really happens or not because i did see that prospective and having that chilling feeling i hope that feeling and mind set is no longer with you no more. "God bless you"
Thanks for that nice talk. As a psychiatrist treating hallucinated patients, I have told the most educated ones that the mind had to use its hallucinating skills not only for making up dreams, but also to make up "reality" during wakefulness. In order to decrease their feeling of being abnormal, I also tell them that "hallucinations" are just bits of dreams when they are awake.
@@samwalsh8299 don't try reverse twist this onto me as if my life were miserable. You told a stranger to shut up when she was just simply leaving an innocent comment, now you're trying to play victim.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 How so? Beauty is inherently subjective. The one who thinks the child is not beautiful must, according to you, also be delusional, since beauty is not an objective property. We all live in our own world.
Lmao if that's actually an omg moment. The power of the human subconscious is being anything you could possibly imagine (and that's an example of your conscious mind at work!). I recommend dabbling with psychedelic substances if that's something that interests you, your perception of the world we live in will forever change.
You just said “what if every mother believes their kid is the most beautiful, because they believe their kid is the most beautiful?” What if I believe the sky is pretty because I actually believe the sky is pretty? Mind blown.
Super fascinating talk. As a Christian, i am so grateful that there is a powerful, loving, and personal God that actually wants to relate to me and that i don't just have to trust my own hallucinations to help me navigate through reality.
Except that's empirically and logically false and absurd. If everyone agreed that a red cube had taken the place of the sun, it could still be the case that, in reality, we are all wrong and having false hallucinations, and that the sun still existed in exactly the same state as before *in reality*. Seth, like many neuroscientists, just ignores philosophy in order to say things that "BLOW YOUR MIND!!111!" but when you actually think about them for 5 seconds they break down into nonsense and platitudes.
You are factually and logically incorrect. A hallucination is, by definition, the perception of something which is not actually present in reality. In other words, it's a trick of your brain. If we all hallucinated at the same time, it would NOT be the case (again, by definition) that the hallucination was reality. In fact, it would be very likely that we would find evidence later on that we had all hallucinated.
He said that we call it reality, not that it is reality. So I guess (according to him) when we all agree on a hallucination, we incorrectly dub it as reality?
What is real? How do you define real? If "real" is what you can touch, smell, taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brian. - Morpheus
Morpheus is wrong : if real is what you can touch, smell and taste AND if real is just electric signals. Then you could touch, smell and taste electric signals.
amawalpe bro the electrical signals cant be touched smelled or tasted. Like are you kidding me the electric signals are sending transmissions to your brain that ALLOW you to touch taste and smell things.
A thing cannot cause itself, as it wouldn't be there to cause anything in the first place. Anything needs to be caused by something external to it. The opposite claim is not even intelligible.
What do you mean. I'm afraid of 'nothing' because I would love to be conscious and continue to exist as a form of higher consciousness or awareness that is free from the pains of physical limitations.
@@humanbeing1429 From what the guy was implying, he was saying that your brain essentially hallucinates your consciousness and once you die there is "nothing" to be conscious about and thus consciousness ceases to exist.
Jack Daniels But then once you're unconcious or are dead, you won't be afraid anymore because there is no you. Your fear ceases to exist along with your being. You might be scared up till the point where you're still concious but then after that there's literally nothing-ness for you. So fear not my friend~
@@zigaxyon9788 "Conciousness ceases to exist" this sounds ludicrous to me. How can that be? That is unimaginable. Even in deep sleep or coma we do experience( or are conscious of) the 'blackness' that we see, though that is not accompanied by the sense of "I".
@@sudipkumarroy3198 Yeah because you still have brain activity and your heart pumping blood into it. When you die the experiences just stop altogether.
I hear this and apply it to the spiritual practice of being in front my mirror and changing my mind about how I see myself. And therefore changing how people see me. I sometimes look at my reflection and see all of the issues I find with my skin and hair, my eyes. It can really bring me down. But I take out a second to say something different to myself. I go on about how fucking beautiful I am and how the bags under my eyes and the frizz in my hair is all a part of that. It changes how I feel. Suddenly I'm awake and walking on sunshine and the people around me see that and respond accordingly. I believe this is also an example of that lovely phrase "confidence is sexy". Because confidence starts within and is a projection of how a person sees themself. You are how and who you want to be, at the end of it all,, and the beginning.
“Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.” *...bold of you to assume i wasn’t already doing that*
On a very basic level, even though it’s very complex, we “hallucinate” colour, sound, taste and smell even though none of these exist outside of our brains. There are no such things as colours in the real world. There is light that has frequency and our brain associates this with colour but in a very weird way. Our brain doesn’t tell us the frequency of the light that is coming into our eyes and in fact it doesn’t know anything about frequency of the light. The brain is sent signals from sensors in our eyes and then somehow it creates what we call colour. We then use the colour to simplify what we see and detect its shape etc. As was shown in the talk, we don’t just perceive colours but we see what we expect to see which tends to help keep colours stable under different lighting conditions. It’s pretty amazing.
I wish he would have gone into greater detail about how exactly various brain regions function. For example, yes we're all hallucinating a prediction but it would be useful to know that the hallucination only occurs about 0.5 seconds before reality is perceived. Within that 0.5 seconds several brain regions including the amygdalae check the perceived reality to see if it matches what the brain was predicting. If an anomaly occurs and is small it doesnt produce very much of a stress response. If reality turns out to be far different from expected.....You'll experience a much stronger stress response. This explains a lot. For example, if you've ever caught a loved one cheating on you, were you upset that they performed a physical act with another human? Or were you upset because it was completely unexpected? You were so in love with the person that you formed an assumption (prediction) about your future both short term AND long term and now suddenly that narrative (predictive hallucination) is dashed to bits as you realize you were wrong and have to imagine an entirely new future. When you suddenly became aware of the deception and betrayal your amygdalae screamed in protest and it took time for your brain to accept the new reality and begin predicting a new future.
Peter Foote I'm by no means new to TED yet thought this was one of the top 20 or so. Despite not being the most detailed TED talk out there, it provides an excellent basis to intrigue and inform someone who isn't as educated in this field, which in my opinion, is exactly what a TED talk should do. Also, this is TED, not TEDX.
SioxerNic True, throwing your own political slant on things seems to be the flavour of the month (or the year). Though I don't think it detracts from the original message here, most talks would be better without. Except for that recent one where the woman was talking about propaganda... The political slant on that allowed you to see through the veil of bullshit to her true agenda.
"We're all hallucinating all the time, even right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality" - Anil Seth
Best. Quote. Ever!!!
The feeling of consensus (and perhaps other people :-) is part of the constructed reality too.
I recommend you to listen to one of Alan Watts lectures called The Human Game. It explains in a phylosofical manner how we get attached to this false sense of self (the hallucination) and how it cause us to disconnect from our nature and therefore suffer
@@rafaelstabile2387 sounds interesting
What does that actullay mean?
@@jennesis777 I suggest that you don't take things so literally. The quote is funny. That's all, folks!
Get a hobby.. you obviously have too much free time on your hands.
"When we agree about our hallucination, we call that reality.."..nailed it with that one
Bullshit.
The only problem with that statement is that without consciousness there is no hallucination.
@@Corteum that's true. But what separates consciousness from physical matter? One is tangible and the other is not right? So basically one has to exist to give a reference point for the other.
@@Shlogger You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. - Plotinus
@@Shlogger I think what separates consciousness from physical matter is the fact that consciousness cannot be represented in its entirety by purely mathematical or physical descriptions. The primary features or qualities of consciousness (subjectivity, awareness, attention, perception, emotional experience, etc) simly don't meet the definition of a Newtonian object (which has mass, shape, momentum, charge, etc).
There's not even a definition of consciousness in any biological, physics, or mathematical text book. We ourselves don't even know how to get subjects out of objects i.e. we know of no process by which conscious entities can be derived from unconscious matter or by computational process. I think it's really an empirical question, though... Something we'll have to figure out by careful experimentation and observation.
Ah yes watching this during an existential crisis in the middle of the night was a great idea
part of the reason some ppl are killing themselves is not having a bathtub
what video? i hope that this video will give me a reason to take life seriously,
Ender Wolf
Ender is a great first name for somebody who is going to wind up killing themselves.
lol I'd be questioning my existence too If I was a fucking Weeaboo
Ender Wolf - I Love You
To be relaxed, present and accepting of what is, in my current surroundings, is quite possibly the best method I've ever found of dissolving my many negative emotions.
Finding peace through presence and acceptance is a powerful method for dissolving negative emotions. This practice emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and being attuned to the moment. It’s amazing how such a simple approach can have profound effects on our mental and emotional well-being, offering a path to inner tranquility and resilience.
But it’s also one of the hardest things to do. Takes years of practice in my opinion for it to become apart of your life that truly rules over all of your thoughts and decisions
@@okchaz6634 It's sounding like you're expecting a solution to give you results very quickly. Like anything worthwhile, the more you practice the better you become.
You put words into my life that I needed
Emotional are like weather, I like all weather including the most violent and depressing ones, sadness is poetry and rage is life, the sunny emotions are nice too
"There's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing at all"....he knows something....
Yes, he's saying there is nothing. Just like when you go under general anaesthetic... there is nothing. You're consciousness is switched off.
Forever nothing. But you are not aware of it. kinda scary
@@mikolajlew363 kinda scary? It's the most terrifying thing ever, by far.
@@mikolajlew363 forever nothing but being aware of it would be way worse
Yeah none of yall understand that theres no such thing as nothing, you would have to compare that to something which would automatically make it something. We are immortal beings having a material experience
“Imagine being a brain”
My brain: *Tries to imagine being a brain*
😂
Yunus Ali Akbas,
Most of what people call scientific facts are based upon dogmatic assumptions closing so many doors to possible areas of research.
One of the dogmatic assumptions is that the universe is made out of unconscious matter, there's no consciousness in stars, in planets, in plants, in animals so they ought to be any in us either. So they've spent over a century trying to prove that we're not conscious at all.
and your brain knows you can do better THAT'S the secret once you get there one will know. Nirvana. Wow
You're not a brain you're a soul imo
Ye we are souls experiencing what this world has to offer through these physical vehicles🙌
As a musician, after spending a lifetime (over 50 years) playing piano, the instrument feels like an extension of my body and as much a tool for self expression as my lungs, larynx, mouth and tongue. Could it be that mastery (of anything) is when the brain assimilates the tools of expression as part of the human body, and that that is what is meant when a samurai says, ‘I and the sword are one.’ 🤔
@Ruben O. ‘better’ but not necessarily assimilation. I know plenty of musicians who play well but cannot ‘speak’ through their instruments. That’s what I’m alluding to, as in the ‘fake arm’ experiment, where the brain believes the fake arm is the real arm. So, the musical instrument becomes an appendage of the biological body with the brain using it as a tool of expression.
As if you are one
@@RavensHouseOfTarot1111 Yes
@Ruben O. Be music.
That is shorter.
i don't know if you would sense physical pain if i tried to stick a fork into your piano, but maybe it's more of a gradual thing. similarly you could maybe think of a vehicle as an extension of your body when you're driving it
“when the end of conciousness comes, theres nothing to be afraid of. Nothing at all” omgashh i got goosebumped
He emphasized on nothing. The way I took that was he was saying when we die, that’s it, we’re dead, just ceasing to exist anymore. So you shouldn’t be afraid of something you’re not going to be aware of anyway.
I could be way off but that’s how my brain hallucinated that 😊
@@JALEX14
Yea that felt like his intent, which was very strange since the idea of there being no other experience is what people are MOST afraid of.
Consciousness Itself is the one thing that never ends. We are Consciousness Itself. Reality Itself is Consciousness Itself
@@I_dont_want_an_at
Yea I got the impression this presenter believes all consciousness is the result of matter interactions and biological brain signals, though there's no evidence of that from my understanding and none presented here. What makes something self aware/conscious is still a great mystery in scientific studies.
@@Alex_Logan22true
I unfortunately went into phycosis once and started hallucinating and having vivid dreams and nightmares and sleepwalking. I can remember most of my hallucinations and in that moment it time it all felt so real, I died multiple times laying in my bed starting at the wall just thinking that this is what death is, "the last thing you see before you die" I believed i was dead so much that I even pissed myself and wet the bed as a 21 yr old because I felt I had to pee and I thought I was dead so I couldn't move, I couldn't feel my body, so I just let it go. All the hallucinations were so real that I remember the feeling of my friend touching my arm, even thought he wasn't really there. And one point I was able to control my dreams and hallucinations but I wouldn't wish going through that on my worst enemy. I feel so bad for people that just know that as life, there is no way for them to get better. So whenever you see that homeless man yelling at nobody and talking to himself, just know that he is suffering in one of the worst ways possible
Why is this comment not with more likes than the ones by people hating on Anil for being a "materialist" (all the while probably succumbing into consumerism themselves)...
Caine S
That’s so sad:(
Thank-you for your story. There’s a great lesson there and I hope we all keep that in mind.
Same here brotha...i have never been able to be the same...i was once succeful and family guy...i still somewhat young but i have been left mentally cripled..one thing though it seems the only way i fail the mission is if i kill myself...so its a struggle everday to complete my mission here in life whatever it is now....
Emmanuel Sanchez
You’re very brave. You are strong. It’s hard to even begin to live at times when you’ve gone though something so intense and terrible. I’m really proud of you for choosing to live your life, that’s very commendable, really.
Take care of yourself, and please never lose hope. Your life can be put back together, one piece at a time. Though it requires a lot of dedication, you can do it. You’re tiny, things won’t be exactly like they were before anymore, but a happy, safe future is still worth fighting for.
Keylow 89
Oh:( That sounds like a horrible experience to have, believing it’s actually happening to you when it isn’t. How do you think it’s your brain protecting you? Just curious, if you’d like to answer.
"Brain is the most important organ" says the Brain.
Manish Pradhan
My brain believes it’s the heart lol
😂 cute
@@IYeleven And does your brain mean heart, the organ that pumps or the abstract word used in songs? Btw I like your last name. It's so Lannister🦁😀
...and the genetalia disagree...
Tell that to your stomach [ 2nd ] Brain 📌
"What we call reality is, in fact, nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination." - Terence McKenna
I don't know why you would receive 67 likes for that quote since it can be taken in several different contexts.
@@Mick0722MX thats the point lmao, they all took it how they wanted
@@amysteriousdisease7168 Yeah, but the problem is that some of the contexts are based on bullshit. That's why elaboration is a good thing.
McKenna was in for a rude awakening when he died lmfao! All his mind altering tripping could never compete with death! There are many dimensions in the universe and mind altering chemicals will take you to a few of them for sure, but that is not the experience that the soul has at death,the soul/consciousness does not need a brain , so with that said everything that was said in this video was out of context,so is irrelevant in the case of death! How do I know this ? I have died and have had eyes to see and ears to hear and thoughts that where as if I was still alive, the soul/consciousness is like the Sun/Son we are a immortal ball of Plasma consciousness! Some of us know this it is for the world to figure it out! But not through any heartless science that does not include spirit in the creation.
@@Mick0722MX Care to elaborate?
Saw this video a while ago but I just rewatched it, and I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen on UA-cam. His presentation is wonderful and engaging, and what he says is up to date with neuroscience.
Great speaker and great video!
@@CibitiProlmao chatgpt using ahh 💀
"what he says is up to date with neuroscience" he is quite literally the most cited scholar on earth on that exact topic. What an asinine comment.
@@Tash25432 Stfu nerd, you don't need to be so rude; I too can read wikipedia. Neuroscience is such an evolving field that it's impressive nonetheless.
@@Tash25432
This commenter you refer to as asinine commented 3 years ago. Yours was a decent comment before the unnecessary insult.
Hey YT,
Where does someone learn to be like this? (Asking anyone but this person)
"We dont just passively perceive the world, we actively generate it"
Yeah, that's what he said in the video. You don't have to make a comment repeating it.
How do I turn the render distance up and generate a few more chunks then?
Your mind generates it after it observes it. Don;t let the internet ruin your good mind.
@@ArtisanTony you did not generate the world that occurred naturally
Definitely words worth highlighting!
"we are definitely a part of Nature not apart from it" nice quote.
Maybe nice quote, but maybe that is wrong too, like everything? Who knows?
@@ozanercan2469 what does it even mean to know anything
@@npc4416 I don't know.
@@ozanercan2469 How are we not part of nature?
@@tesseractharpy6138 well nature no longer selects us since the advent of medicine, maybe we are no longer part of it. Even though we still need it
"We're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.
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What a load of bullshit.
It’s sick, when you think about it. Or don’t think about it.
That's an incredible statement and should be pondered upon. I deep down always new this but never could put into words.
@@Mick0722MX youre an idiot
Wait, is UA-cam real? Nah it's just a hallucination when you smoke a blunt and you're about to fall asleep. xD
A masterpiece of speech, especially his final, closing words. Thank you.
His final words were a lie..there os absolutely something to be afraid of in the afterlife...the human body is not a product of evolution it is a creation
The power of a well-crafted speech lies in its ability to resonate and inspire, and it sounds like this one did just that. The closing words often leave the most lasting impression, encapsulating the essence of the message. It’s wonderful to see how such impactful communication can evoke deep appreciation and gratitude. Truly a masterpiece of delivery.
@@CibitiPro
It’s a horrifying message though.
Suffering from anxiety/depression. I can confirm that "self" feeling is just a feeling and it can be ripped apart very easily. It's horrific to feel empty to not feel your body and to not feel your personality anymore. It feels like.. i would assume death would feel like that. I think in other words its called depersonalization. A true nightmare to live like that. Feels like you do not exist anymore.
Know exactly what that feels like but here is the antidote to all that grief. Just understand that what you call your 'self' is a bundle of thoughts going round in your head telling you life is difficult and upsetting when in actual fact, your true self is a formless and deathless being of pure conscious energy that negative thoughts can't influence. Death will feel like a transition between your current incarnation and the next reality, please don't fear it at all.
@@bodhiapurva3887 Maybe not the best thing to say to me cuz i've attempted suicide and might attempt again. But if you're right then it's good that i'll leave this place and transition into another place. I wish i was so sure about afterlife as you are. Then i would leave this world in an instant.
@@carnifex8 The main issue with leaving this realm is that the next reality could be harder to cope with. At least you are familiar with your current existence and can solve some of the problems by understanding the way they affect you. For example, the thoughts that keep going round in your mind are habitual and watching them is the way to reduce these to a minimum, replacing them with positive ones that don't make you feel so bad about life. Hard at first but as you decide to change your outlook, your depressed feeling will be less of an influence.
@Eduardo Candeias I hope it's true cuz it really feels like we are our body and we are our minds and nothing more special. When i had severe depersonalization it really felt like i had 0 personalities left in me. I just felt nothing at all. No emotions no personality nothing everything was gone no living energy either. Just going through the days in an "automatic" gear not really having control of anything anymore. Scary stuff. But yeah.. it's all damn anxiety. It really feels like you're goin crazy bonkers full force.
@Eduardo Candeias The reason why our personalities can fragment into many parts is down to identifying with the many thoughts that pass through our minds. Paying too much attention to these thoughts is what causes anxiety. We have developed habits that have become ingrained and reversing this process is necessary to become free of the excessive mental activity. Keeping watch over what we think is a basic way of cultivating increased awareness of the nature of the mind.
“all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be”- pink floyd
Wisdom, brought to you by acid. Haha, seriously though i think it is correct.. and in a way, thats kind of terrifying to me. I always hoped there was something other then just living, and then dying
Pink Floyd? The guy that became schizophrenic? Was it because of too much drugs, alcohol or reality? What do you think?
@Andrew Scott Keep your indoctrination away from thought-provoking subjects such as this. Your sense of spirituality, and the medium through which you exercise it, are no better or more correct than anyone else's.
@@williamr.lacerda8848 You're talking about Syd Barret, the founder of Pink Floyd. It was acid that messed him up. He was taking copious amounts of it, more than what one should take. Plus, he hung around leeches that laced his drinks with that stuff too
All your _life_ will ever be, but not all _you_ wil ever be. There is no death, only return to a higher state of consciousness. The remarkable studies on near-death experiences and reincarnation give very strong evidence for existence beyond death, and beyond birth too! Now take the rather ‘spooky’ and jarring, mind-bending experiences brought on by certain psychedelics, and by experiences we can all try out like astral projection and remote viewing. These will give you an experiential insight into this ‘beyond lived reality’ kind of understanding of existence that NDEs and knowledge of reincarnation can lead us to. This stuff is very real, and highly confusing - but anyone can check it out. And understanding can help us build a fuller picture of our place in the universe; in reality. Look it up! :)
"you don't have to be smart to suffer, but you probably do need to be alive." Really says much about how we treat other living being that aren't of our own species.
Who eles read this soon as he spoke this !
So true, wish more people would consider the suffering we inflict on billions of animals every year
We should treat others in ethical way, not because they are intelligent, but they are SENTIENT. This applies to other species of course.
yup time to go vegan...
How about what it say's in regard to how we treat our own species?
Right off the bat you got me with you because when I had surgery and I got put under, I remember my eyes getting heavy and I fell asleep and right as my eyes closed, they opened back up again. That's how it felt to me. I woke up in the recovery room after surgery and it felt like I had fallen asleep and woke up again immediately like when you're in class and tired and catch yourself drifting. It'd actually even several hours
I've had dreams during anasthesis. Very nice ones too. I didn't know how long I'd been under 10 mins or hours. That was twice. I wonder if it's just that the anesthesia wasn't strong enough because other times I dreamt nothing.
Your experience under anesthesia is a fascinating example of how our perception of time can be distorted. It’s incredible how the brain can make hours feel like mere moments, underscoring the mysterious nature of consciousness. Such experiences remind us of the intricate workings of our mind and the profound mysteries still to be explored within the realm of neuroscience.
Thanks for sharing!... I'm about to go through surgery and general anesthesia in a couple weeks. Not sure if hearing others talk about it, makes it MORE or LESS scary...
That was my experience as well. I counted backwards from 100 hundred, never making t to 90. Then suddenly I was awake in the recovery room. I had no idea where I was, what had happened or how much time had passed. It was not lke sleep
We are brainwashed since 6 or 7 to believe that we learn the most important things in school. In fact i`v learned more important things on UA-cam and on books. Things about myself.
I think school main purpose is to make you an active worker of the society. It does not care too much about your inner self as long as you are fit to help society as a whole. In my opinion public school is shaped as a socialist attitude towards knowledge.
It is also serving the evolutionary principle where the survival of the species is more important than the life of individuals.
At least this was my experience but maybe there are newer systems of teaching nowadays.
Constantine ya but schools important cause it will help you get a job, but trying to pursue a career in philosophy and studying consciousness is hard to do
The internet is fantastic but I've definitely learned more from books and school more than the internet. School is extremely important whether you enjoy it or not. You're learning soo much about the universe through school. Also in the fictional reality, we live in education is needed. If you're not learning anything in school than you probably just don't care enough or the education system is failing you.
@@javen69 Yes but what I'm trying to say is that the main purpose of school is to teach and form you to be productive for the society. It is a more of a socialist attitude towards knowledge. It does not help you learn about yourself. It does not care too much about you as long as you are able to meet the needs of society. It uses uses you. It's part of the evolutionary system he is talking about . Evolution doesn't care much about each individual life and needs as long as the species survive.
@@Constantinesis I see, you make a good point. Can't deny that but I'm just saying that there is a positive side to school. Although what you said may be the reality of things it's nice to know things that don't matter if that makes any sense.
School makes no sense think about it for a minute. It is there to baby sit children and to make them obedient. They don't remember what they are "taught" its a sham. We all know it and nobody will ever do anything about it. Nobody really wants good change. Change means doing things differently, we are creatures of habit.
After my sister died, I began questioning the meaning of life and my existence. Not a fun place to be but it lead me to begin researching NDEs (near death experiences) and one in particular grabbed my attention. Dr Eban Alexander had an extraordinary NDE in the early 90's after suffering from a bacterial infection in his brain. Within hours he was in a comatose state and went on to go into another realm. He vividly describes being surrounded by love and taken on an incredible journey where he learned the true meaning of life and consciousness. What struck me the most about his takeaway was that he stated our brains are merely a filtering system. Much like the display screen of a computer and that the actual hard drive is what we know as God or The Source. We are spirits experiencing life as human beings. Our brains simply help us tune out the true reality so we can live in this physical 3D realm if you will. Our consciousness or soul is eternal and we never die. It sounds far out but the more I look into NDEs and tie that into what the scientific community is discovering about consciousness and quantum physics it all ties in together and begins to make sense.
Hi Rachel - I find the similarities between DMT experiences and NDE very interesting. You may find it interesting too
What he is trying to say is that according to theory from quantum mechanics it happens to be the case that there are a possibility of many die mentions existing in math this is just in math this guy thinks that you know there's a dimension where chairs control people like your pic and Morty stuff like that we haven't really crossed that so I don't know he's getting this from I think he's just trying to spread his religious propaganda and until we actually find existence of the graviton and realize what it is if itA particle then we can basically say we have found this theory of everything we have tied gravity with Quan Tom Cuanto mechanics and as such we will know if they actually are multiple of them dimensions and then we can say yeah this guy was right all along
Please search on youtube for the NDE from Natalie Sudman, Afterlife TV with Bob Olson. There are 4 or 5 interviews with her. Learned so much from her. She is such a nice woman!
Yes almost anyone who look into NDEs with minimal open mindedness will come out with your conclusions as well
@Mike McKay See, your conclusion doesn't take into consideration the fact that we didn't just pop in this planet, in the exact form that we have today, at some point the life on earth was just a single cell organism just like our cells in our bodies, with basically no consciousness, just a mechanism. And even if what you say is true, where did that eternal spirit come from and so on. It is a never-ending question.
Religion is just a really old theory that tried to answer the question of how we came to be based on what people knew at the time. Basically, a legend if you will. Its human nature to find answers even if that's a guess.
When we agree on "reality," it's because we are similar creatures with similar experiences. When a rare individual comes with a different view, he may be labelled either a genius or a madman depending on how many people he is able to convince.
Best fucking comment on here
The earth is flat and dinosaurs aren't real pass it on
Epic
@@erickquintero1142 You're not convincing me...
the true mark of a genius (i think) is holding and sharing that wisdom with no desire for others’ approval. whereas madmen will cast pearl after pearl before swine
"With a greater sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder and a greater realisation that we are a part of and not a part from nature"
The guy has a way with words. that's a powerful statement.
I love it.
I hate the "Nature vs Nurture" dichotomy and how it began.
Them: You're Tripping!
Me: We're all tripping, man!
["9/6/20, Science was/is used as "magic" to enslave humanity, so innerstanding true science is going to be required in order to break free. (Ultimate Warrior)"]
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Turns out that is a compliment .
I read this in a stoner/ surfer voice and it has made me lol. Brilliant comment haha
@@captainciz hahaha spot on!!
My brain halllucinated this lecture? Wow I am super smart.
You r stupid. Now ur brain hallucinated that someone said u stupid.
Your brain also hallucinated you
@Hey Man you are beautifull
@Hey Man , no you just keep hallucinating this every day of your life that doesn't exist. I guess because you would rather be fat then well-built so much so that you hallucinated everyday for every how many years old you are.
Me too, I just keep getting older and more wrinkly every year that goes by, I can't seem to hallucinate or imagine the Fountain of Youth. Someone must be controlling my hallucinations again! LOL I loved your statement
@@whattodowithmemarie2452 it is not you that has controle. You as a person are part of the play of consciousness. Everything appears in consciousness. Consciousness experiences itself through different forms.
“With a greater sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder” ♥️
🩷
Yes, remember the wonder you saw in the, world, when you were very young. It's still there kids 🙂
With the sense of understanding comes a greater sense of wonder
I don't know why recently everytime I read a comment referring a speech from the video it auto delves into that part as if the comment is being read for me. Lmao
Concidence!
Or a billion more questions. But yes my sense of awe and wonder definitely grows greater than before with each revelation. So does my respect for nature.
"We predicted ourselves to reality"
What a statement because of these i can understand how other creatures perceive the same reality In different ways because they predicted themselves as they are right now.
The statement "We predicted ourselves to reality" beautifully encapsulates the essence of perception. It highlights how our brains construct our reality based on predictions and past experiences. This concept not only sheds light on human cognition but also opens up fascinating discussions about how different creatures might experience the world through their unique predictive mechanisms.
When you look outward you dream but when you look inward you awaken.
yes
My life's work has been a preparing for the outcome.
Carl Jung?
Absolutely beautiful
Thats deep
Gentle, articulate, and mindfuck. Three rare qualities in a single video.
It shouldn't be funny for LMAO
"Your mind, if you have one, is not in your head. Instead, your head is in your mind." Alan Watts
thedarkmoonman That's solipsism
"It is amazing what doesn't exist in real world. For example in the real world there aren't any things, nor are there any events, that doesn't mean to say that the world is perfectly featureless blank. It means that it is a marvelous system of wiggles." Alan Watts
I agree with you 'thedarkmoonman.' At the beginning he says “consciousness is all there is” and also says that “without it, there is no world, there is no self, etc.” What he forgets is that it is consciousness that knows about the brain (a piece of flesh that cannot talk) as well. In other words, one can say that without consciousness there is no brain (i.e., we wouldn’t know that there is a brain). Experiencing consciousness is what happens during spiritual practices.
Mind = Blown
I was thinking of Alan Watts while watching this. He has a wonderful view of consciousness.
Psychedelics seem to allow you to break the cycle of human perceptual contiguity just like anesthesia. Good vid.
Read Carlos Castanada’s
“A Separate Reality”
Not exactly a NEW idea. Frank Herbert said this 70 years ago in his science fiction. Read the book Destination Void.
@@soltrinox1 Indian mystics have been saying it for centuries. (I mean the breaking through part, not from psychedelics.) But it still isn’t common knowledge and it definitely isn’t common experience.
@@oolala53 isn't common knowledge cause people are afraid to accept it and go through with it . Its cool though , I genuinely believe the world would be a better place if everybody did psychedelics for one year
@@Droy5555 I think presidential candidates should have had to drop three times with guidance.
"Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."
- Zhuangzi -
Thank you Dark.
No matter what the explanation for everything we experience is, the fact that there is anything at all to experience is a most humbling and fascinating thing. It would be wise to remember that whether you are an anti-realist philosopher, or a religious zealot, neither of you actually KNOW the truth.
iNSiPiD1 YOU DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH.
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
« the fact that _there is anything at all to experience_ is a most humbling and fascinating thing.»
What do you mean?
Aren't you aware of your actual experience?
That's the type of title that cause an existential crisis in my mind before I even click on the video..
Really? Because it soothes mine.
Fucking tell me about it.
Edit: I finished watching the video. It's undoubtedly worth watching. Very insightful, and compelling.
littlesometin Really? I find it dizzying and thrilling ......😂
Set- Tes, You're spot on my man. I was drawn to it, like a Moth to a flame.
The sooner you accept determinism, the sooner you accept it was all inevitable ;)
Anil Seth is brilliant at so many levels. He is a brilliant scientist but what most impresses me is his ability to take very complex ideas and make them understandable to the masses and to do it in a very entertaining way. Gifted speaker.
Yes. He is good at dumbing down
I must admit.
Our perception of reality changes reality.
Woke plus I'm not the thinker
I do agree somewhat. There is something Profound... Something that we are missing by this "Observer" phenomenon.
Gizmo Wiz I learnt this off of lsd
Our perception of reality is reality.
@@robbex2840 haha
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises in our thoughts,
and with our thoughts we make the world."
-- Dhammapada
Dhammapada OR JESUS. 😂
@@camilleroseministries Same difference. We are all you. And you are all of us.
Rather....you are what's aware of those thoughts. Consciousness that is - HempYoda
@@richedge8667 yep its you getting mugged and it's you doing the mugging. You get to experience everything. Just not at the same time. Not everyone sees this so the mugger thinks he's getting the upper hand on someone not realizing he will have to experience the other end of that stick eventually. Or perhaps he already has. It's not something we can fully comprehend in this form. It's like trying to explain to your cat why you're getting divorced.
The best quotes are from some guy no one has ever heard of. -- Mahatma-Coat n' Shoes
"We predict ourselves into existence." That quote really got me.
yeah, but its also a marriage between prediction and reality!
This guy can craft the scientific nuances so eloquently, I feel like I'll go to college for studying neuroscience
I like it. Maybe that can explain the reason why we don't recall memories from our very early childhood.
@@domsaint8791 I do recall memories from my very early childhood.
Obvious problem: Who or what does the predicting? Calling it 'we' makes the proposition manifestly nonsensical!
I was relieved when he finally picked up the hand and started talking about it. I thought I might have been the only one seeing it.
but why are we all hallucinating the same
We all have the same hardware
Ask two people who ate shrooms together. They see what we don’t
Mass hysteria
Society, propaganda, culture, education plus avatar(genetic) that's what making you yourself. Move to another country and after 1-2 generations your child's will adopt there and will act and do things same way that people in that country doing.
Arman Chilingaryan hmmm
One day I woke up and didn't know who I was. For a moment I didn't even remember my name. There was no identity. Looking back, my identity is one big hallucination that momentarily stopped functioning.
Cap
You were hungover. It’s normal.
@@liveitloveitswimit421 no at that moment I was fully present, no prior alcohol and/or drugs involved.
This happened to me and turns out it was Dissociative Identity Disorder 😅
I don't think most people experience this, ever.
"Tried to tell y'all this >2,500 years ago..."
--The Buddha
I know right
Shame on you🤣
You can make a religion out of this
Lol. I just got done typing almost the same thing. Awesome. Good to see. Namaste to you
Buddha just copies Hinduism and Jainism. He's a joke.
Fantastic presentation. When I juxtapose what the Anil is saying with the fundamental nature of mind according to the Shakyamuni Buddha (the first Buddha) they match perfectly. In the eastern philosophical traditions the idea that our mind creates reality and that our perception of reality is limited is well understood. Really enjoyed the talk.
I'm not *schizophrenic* I'm just _bad at hallucinating._
Or maybe schizophrenia is just a condition where the brain gives more weight to internal hallucinatory stimulation than exterior hallucinatory stimulation?
Chop Shop limes disease is just inflammation caused from plant toxins and is cured by eating 100% carnivore diet. You heard it here whenever.
Emil Dabrowski You are most welcome , spread the word. Took me 23 years to find that out and cure myself.
@Get Real - Love is Action Even God plays with dice .
YES
What he said at the end “When the end of consciousness comes, there is nothing to be afraid of...NOTHING at all.” Geeez dude, I’m both in blissful awe and terror of the anticipation at the same time!!
It’s a very dark point also, why religion was primarily made up, to end suffering is to end life
You fall asleep everynight.. Your consciousness ceases..Are you afraid of anything? Nope. Because you no longer are conscious to experience anything: Including Time.
Uhm when you are sleeping you know you are conscious because you know you are dreaming Lmaoooo
@@effortlessawareness8778 Technically when you're sleeping you're still conscious. That's why sensations such as noise or touch can still wake you up
@@effortlessawareness8778 sleeping is not a loss of consciousness. Anesthesia is.
We are not humans having spiritual experience. We are all spiritual beings having human experience.
Sanjay Muraleedharan 🙌🏽 Never more wonder than when you believe this. 💜🌸💜
Great way of putting it.
bla
Sanjay Muraleedharan are we now? As if being a spiritual being is some how separate than being a human being 🤔
Does a front exist without a back? Does concave exist without convex?
Fox FBI there is no such concept as a front without back, or such a thing as good.. without evil
Nothing complicated about that :D
7 years later, this is still one of my favorite TedTalks that I recommend everyone to watch.
Being unable to understand a person's speech when you can't see there lips move because they are wearing a mask is a good example of your brain taking guesses
Understanding someone perfectly through a phone call nullifies your claim
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 When you can't hear the person's sound, brain.exe still trying to make best guess with lips move
More accurately, some syllables can be mistaken for one another when one cannot see lips. Such as the classic 'va' and 'ba' auditory illusion. This also occurs in the 'yanny - laurel' debate that was popular a few years back
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 I believe when you talk to someone but they mumble or say something that you didn't understand at first but your brain fills in the gaps with context from your conversation and experiences, also in this case, reading lips. Having a mask cover your lips makes it harder to recognize mumbled or indistinguishable speech. When ur on your phone your brain doesn't have the visual information but it still tries to fill in what you didn't understand with context and personal speech experience. It does the same thing over the phone except with one less variable to help. And if you still can't make out what was said, then that's when people ask the other person what was said and to repeat it.
@@boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 No it doesn't. The brain has already predicted a phone call and that that comes with it. Face-to-face conversation the brain predicts differently. Maybe that's where the muffle comes from lol
this video helped me understand advanced Buddhist teachings much better. To our brain, everything is an illusion and conscious perception of a self creates duality and thus reality. Now it all makes a lot of sense.
As a wanna-be Buddhist for maybe half my life, I would agree that this offered a fresh perspective on something some part of "me" already understood. All of this was said so well.
I deeply agree. Having interest in buddhist philosophy for several months now and understood (at my scale oc) Anatta, mordern science really brings something wonderful to the table and this video is amazing for that.
@@julelemaitre The Buddha knew much about the human mind. Nobody can deny that, that's for sure.
Ok bro tell that to the kids starving in Yemen rn
@@gordonpapi2931 My good sir, I must ask you, how is that relevant to the conversation ? And also, have you seen the whole video ?
"When the end of consciousness comes, there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all." - Anil Seth
When that time comes, he's right. But before, it's a very dreadful thought to become nothing.
just know that you won't feel any pain anymore, in fact you will feel nothing at all :)
I think it's also implicating that fear is unnecessary if consciousness is a hallucination in itself after all
i just wonder what makes you "you" and and someone else. why am i experiencing this "halucination" in this body? and not someone else's ? there is no explanation for that
You won’t become nothing.
Everything we perceive is an illusion of the mind, including the brains and neurones we study. The only thing that can’t be an illusion is consciousness itself.
@@louisevanessa9082 You are half correct. Both the physical world and the conscious mind are "real", but it's with the mind that we are eternal unlike our physical bodies. Both of them influence each other, like how your environment or how you were nurtured molds how you become. And in the other way the mind influences reality, like how our free will functions independently from any causative nature. You just think of something and act on it, that is free will and has been scientifically proven to have no basis in biology or neurology. The thing with the physical world is that it is very limiting, in the literal and in the psychological sense. If someone has brain damage then they may not have the same level of intelligence but their spirit still remains. Spirit is mind. Mind is infinite.
When I searched about videos on what is consciousness, I got so many suggestions, but stumbled on this....best one out there about consciousness!
wow he was an AMAZING public speaker. i don’t think he stuttered even once. great job!
'you don't have to be smart to suffer but you probably need to be alive'
Brilliant quip
It is a cool quote. I'm not certain ultimately that our suffering is more than a warning light on a car dashboard.
"we're all hallucinating right now, but when we all agree upon it, we call that reality". Truer words were never spoken. I have thought of this when I was 12-13 years ago, and when I told my friends, they started laughing..
One of my teachers calls is "consensus reality." probably not his own term. But remember, consciousness is doing all, even showing up as consensus reality.
GREAT!
BUT!
Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
***
Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed.
@@oolala53 I senses you are replying to the comment right?
I would of laughed too
Imagine thinking of something like that at your early ages. Big brain
when the end of consciousness comes, we have nothing to be afraid of... that is a powerful statement
❤❤
Dude this is like a lot for a wensday night.
No time like the present, bucko.
@koomy hehehe
I read this comment exactly at 11 pm on a Wednesday night lol
Durrr..........its Saturday.😂
whooa its actually wensday night tonight @@@@
I begin my meditation classes by explaining verbatim, "we're apart of nature, not apart from nature." I'm glad we're on the same wavelength, Anil. Phenomenal talk.
missed a space there,,
Zzzzz
A part
Isn't that what Yoga means? To become part of nature, the cosmos and universe..
You did this comment a year ago so tell me how does it like to be into meditation
The alien college student who started our universe as a science project:
”They are evolving...”
For real
And where did the aliens come from? How did their existence begin? How did they begin learning? Why do you just take for granted their existence without going further with your questions?
@@aminbinsalim1995 I was just joking. All available evidence points to the fact that God kickstarted our universe. If not He kickstarted the universe from which someone kickstarted us.
@@giuliofrancis8524 Your response is surprising and actually seems sound to me, i'd say i agree with you but i'd like to add that even in the second hipothesis you made ultimately the first kicker i.e God would still be the actual creator.
@@giuliofrancis8524 I would love to see some evidence of this god lol
"When we agree about our hallucinations, we call it reality"
Such a deep and beautiful phrase.
Such Bullshit! so because we are think therefore i am? thats dumb because reality exist regardless of our consciousness
@@clarkkent52 everything is what it is because we agree it is. The sun is the sun because we said it is. Water is water because we said it is. We made up descriptions about things that sounded right, and came to agreements, and that’s why things are how we know them in our everyday lives like cars, beds, houses etc. without us humans, what would anything be? We gave names and ideas to what everything we see is. Everything without us, is simply matter .
@@Alantexans888 So the ontological status and truth values of things are relative to our agreement? Is that objectively true or relatively true?
yes if the past society don’t brainwash us to be like these maybe we have our own different reality but again there is something in our consciousness that tells us to be a part of a group or the urge to connect with others so we have awareness of group and hierarchy that when the brainwashing starts
@@GravitySk8boards the ontological status of things is relative truth, no? Where are natural laws such as gravity etc are objective realities.
The more I read about the brains and how they act as a machine, I'm more and more convinced that we're part of something way more advanced. Probably in a simulation.
You're breaking the 4th wall stop please
DMT beings are future humans runing the simulation
@@ab3493 Even Carl said it was possible .
@@fishfire_2999 who's Carl ?
@@chileflake1656 Carl Sagan .
Waking up from anesthesia rocked me, because it forced me to face the fact that when your brain is shut off you cease to exist. Even having tried psychedelics i still struggle with this realization
I know what you mean. Was put under as well during my jaw surgery. And boyyyyy did it spook me. I remember I tried so hard to stay awake but as I count down from 1 - 10 I got to 3 and thats the last I remember before waking up. Just nothingness when the brain is out. Literally. .-. Its crazzzzy
If all the religious on the planet would acknowledge this, we would have a wiser world
how did going to sleep not scare you? what's the difference?
@@HoD999x I think it's that the brain is still active when we sleep, hence why we dream.
Seems like anaesthesia on the other hand nearly completely shuts it all down, so it's just a blip that didn't happen.
@@ShoulderMonster But it doesn't shut down on anesthesia so even that point makes no sense. What happens to the brain under anesthesia is not too dissimilar to what happens under normal sleep.
There are a bunch of cases of people who have had a near death experience and were able to describe what was happening to their bodies in a very detailed way, all of this being confirmed later on, while they were seeing everything from a place above their physical bodies. Some people were able to see other family members and describe what they were doing and talking at that time, later on being confirmed. The stories are out there, one just have to search and be open. In my opinion, there's only one explanation, the brain is not producing consciousness, but it is a tool through which consciousness experiences the world and itself. There's absolutely no proof that the brain produces consciousness, we do not even know what consciousness is, only thing we can do is study its manifestations.
I'm sorry to say but you have been duped with fake/poorly-sourced stories or reported hearsay.
@@theTranscendentOnes Nope, I too had a few NDEs from when I was really sick, and I also had many out of body experiences, search the expression "astral projection" and see for yourself. I got the proof I need.
@@theTranscendentOnes A few stories is hearsay, thousands of stories is data. There are literally thousands of documented cases of temporary death experiences (many experienced by well credentialed scientists and academics by the way), shared death experiences (apparitions that appear to the dying and unrelated strangers in the same room), children remembering their past life, psychedelic experiences by millions, healing of seemingly irreversible ailments by mere touch, numerous paranormal phenomena, etc. that are routinely excluded by mainstream materialist science, yet point to non-material forms of energy that we are as yet unable to explain.
However denying their existence is akin to denying radioactivity. Just because we have not yet "discovered" this form of energy doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Mathematics and Physics increasingly point to consciousness as being fundamental, not matter. They also increasingly point to a multi-dimensional universe. We are at the cusp of a major paradigm shift this century. The materialist dogma is on its way out and with it the view of sentient beings as being mere biological machines.
you should ask them if they saw their back in detail too because they knew own looks perfectly
and what they recalled was blurred past not moment when they related it
nobody has photographic memory because it doesnt exist
@@theTranscendentOnes harsh xD
This is essentially the brain trying to understand itself 🤯
the universe
Needy Cat Came here to say just that. It’s star dust trying to understand itself.
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.....
Sacred G ᚠᚫᛞᚱ love it
The universe created consciousness in order to understand itself
Absolutely loved this! “We don't passively perceive the world, we actively generate it”
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
lol
Pry open your third eye !
Hamamatsu
Lolololol.....
Yep
my favorite part from this video still after all these years is when he says “we predict ourselves into existence”
These kind of videos make me think, at what point are we learning too much. Is it helpful, and could it be easier to live in ignorant bliss like so many do.
Great question🤔
Does something need to be helpful? Should you try to live easier?
@Lumine Moon and robots are becoming able to adapt
@Lumine Moon ua-cam.com/video/chukkEeGrLM/v-deo.html&app=desktop
@Lumine Moon I agree totally but it’s important to acknowledge that we are all terribly ignorant about so many things, this is equally true for the most knowledgeable people in existence
"imagine being a brain"
Well, I kinda am.
Hlalakar scientist trying to understand brain cells , is brain cells try to understand themself
Note find way to ask brain a question and get honest answer 🤔
We are way more than our brains.
@@TheRyanmiller25255 The brain is the only organ that named itself.
@@hlalakar4156 dumb lol , everyone knows that
When ur consciousness goes wrong, u "lose your mind" or "go crazy" this happened to me and I was diagnosed with schitzophrenia. I realized I was connected to everything around me and I used my mind to manipulate my world.
NBAngel Wings can you explain what you mean by connected to everything?
I'm intrigued, would enjoy hearing more about that
Psychiatry is yet another HOAX! Brain is organ undiagnosed, viewed and then a dozen drugs recalled are thrown at you, in class action suits for extremely addictive qualities and horrific main effects. You're awake, aware, intuitive and perceptive, unlike the dumbed downs predominately surrounding us; IE: NPC's. Most RH -'s have uncanny intuition, very beneficial innate skills and abilities. Envious haters lack our insight, analytical thought processes, and unique traits; classify us as threats of higher intellect and consciousness. Sheeple realize maybe 1/10 of daily occurrences; comprised mainly of badly acted/executed hoaxes and chronic psyops with cry sis actwhores. They look, cannot see, and listen cannot hear what is so blatantly obvious to us who see behind the coded scripted veil.
@@theoshaphat she cannot
They analyse human nature and use it against ya
This is one of the most profound Ted Talks ever. Indeed, one of the most profound observations in recent history. Thank you, friend.
When you are having just the best day, someone else is living a nightmare.
And when you are experiencing a living nightmare, someone else is too, and another someone is experiencing an amazing day (the first one in a looong while, or just one among many). Personally just realizing statistically the chances someone is experiencing the same thing as I do right now, really helps me deal with it myself. Cheers!
It's a nice feeling knowing that if you are having a bad time your allowing another to have a great time.
"When we agree about our hallucinations, we call it reality"
Such a deep and beautiful phrase.
@@sugoish9461 True, but when it comes to SUFFERING, NO ONE (almost no one, except a few evil in number) should be going through that!
"We're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.
"
The Buddha once said “we are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts, and with our thoughts we create the world”.
The 1st time I ever read that quote, I instantly understood it was meant in the literal sense.
Buddha’s insight into the power of thoughts is timeless and resonates deeply. It highlights how our perceptions shape our reality, a concept that aligns with modern understandings in neuroscience and psychology. This quote encourages us to cultivate positive thinking and mindfulness, knowing that our mental landscape profoundly influences our external world. Such wisdom is both ancient and ever-relevant.
A human remains a human no matter what they think they are
@@MrtakethatriiskI think this is a gross misinterpretation of the messages both these comments have tried to convey.
@@Mrtakethatriisk "human" will always remain a discriminatory word that boxes some moving matter as special than other moving matter.
Yep and everyone creates the world through tel lie vision programming .. in 2020 if looking at statistics people would have realised they were being fed bs same with our fake (his story)
And everything else, unfortunately the school system is great for non thinking and just being an obedient slave to the system
"Don't try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth.
There is no spoon''
Guri Yeller
Well, I'm not using my fingers
@@peterhumphreys7078 Teeth and arm? XD
only a vessel
The matrix, love that movie.
the best thing he did was to make the point that we aren't above all other nature, we are a part of it. we all need to be acting like it. The human animal is the only creature who does things out of selfishness. The rest do things to survive and out of need. Lions eat and you won't see them go trying to kill more...nope, they are satisfied. There is no drive to hunt. this was a great ted talk.
You must have never seen a cat play with a mouse 😂
@@a.disaster2324yeah, I’d say animals can definitely be selfish and it’s just another thing we have in common with them. We know they can also be jealous or depressed, etc…
The best explanation of this is, when a group of people are on psychedelics and they all have the same exact experience.
I have taken shrooms several times but I have friends who have different experiences from me. Some reported not really having any visuals even though we ingested it in the same manner. Meanwhile I was tripping and it was great.
I did shrooms once n tweaked hardcore idk bout the psychedelics man felt like i was being controlled
@@209shii I’ve had similar experience where I felt I couldn’t center my thoughts as I usually could.. they kind of spiraled out of control which led to me quitting all drugs. I was an everyday weed smoker and drinker but since my trip I no longer do any drugs. Psychedelics helped me realize that I have complete control over my own happiness.
@@patrickjohnson5250 same here i trippin so hard i gave up everything jus couple months ago but ill still smoke n drink time to time 😂it felt like i was here for a reason like a mission i jus dont quite know why weirdaf
No they don’t. I don’t even know where you came up with that conclusion. It all depends on the persons mood, brain, and train of thought. This video is whack, he’s some dumbass with a lot of subscribers spewing out bullshit.
I read the book “How the brain makes emotions” by Lisa Feldman Barrett. This lecture clarifies parts of the book. I have pre-ordered Seths book “Being You”
This must be the most calming thing I‘ve ever seen. My perspective has been changed and I feel like in some way my healing has begun. Thank you 🙏🏼
Im sorry to ask but where you also scared of dieing as well and wondering if something really happens or not because i did see that prospective and having that chilling feeling i hope that feeling and mind set is no longer with you no more. "God bless you"
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“...there is nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all.” Yes we are afraid of “nothing” and it is terrifying.
Thanks for that nice talk. As a psychiatrist treating hallucinated patients, I have told the most educated ones that the mind had to use its hallucinating skills not only for making up dreams, but also to make up "reality" during wakefulness. In order to decrease their feeling of being abnormal, I also tell them that "hallucinations" are just bits of dreams when they are awake.
Precisely. I believe you are telling them the truth.
Yes, I think so too. Thanks.
J. Bruno Debruille People like you ruin lives.
Why?
J. Bruno Debruille Thank you for asking.
If Black Mirror was a Ted talk, this would be it.
who"s talking?
@@samwalsh8299 jeez stfu and stop replying to me. you arent important enough for me to write with proper grammar.
Sam Walsh1 why would you take the time out of your day to write such an unnecessary comment
@@samwalsh8299 your life must be very misserable.
@@samwalsh8299 don't try reverse twist this onto me as if my life were miserable.
You told a stranger to shut up when she was just simply leaving an innocent comment, now you're trying to play victim.
OMG what if every mother thinks her kid is the most beautiful in the world because she ACTUALLY perceives them to be.
Delusion.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 How so? Beauty is inherently subjective. The one who thinks the child is not beautiful must, according to you, also be delusional, since beauty is not an objective property. We all live in our own world.
Lmao if that's actually an omg moment. The power of the human subconscious is being anything you could possibly imagine (and that's an example of your conscious mind at work!). I recommend dabbling with psychedelic substances if that's something that interests you, your perception of the world we live in will forever change.
You just said “what if every mother believes their kid is the most beautiful, because they believe their kid is the most beautiful?”
What if I believe the sky is pretty because I actually believe the sky is pretty? Mind blown.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 and ur stoopid
Super fascinating talk. As a Christian, i am so grateful that there is a powerful, loving, and personal God that actually wants to relate to me and that i don't just have to trust my own hallucinations to help me navigate through reality.
Precisely. We are slaves to our senses. God create our senses therefore knows our exact limitations.
This guy is dressed like he just left the matrix
PaidLancer hahaha #dead
PaidLancer hahahaya
or a trip to india
Fucking brilliant dude 😂
HAHAHAHA, True
I spent the entire 17 minutes of this video reading the comments
That's absolutely killing me right now, I just burned one and wanted to watch something cool, it's was ok....this wins!! Hahahahaha
Me too.
That’s your brain distracting you from realizing it’s reality ..... or it could of been Janet from HR
JP Bass Official waste a whole blunt in the comments
The ADHD is strong with this one.
We are all hallucinating all the time, it's just that when we all agree about our hallucination, we call that reality. Holy fk
Except that's empirically and logically false and absurd. If everyone agreed that a red cube had taken the place of the sun, it could still be the case that, in reality, we are all wrong and having false hallucinations, and that the sun still existed in exactly the same state as before *in reality*. Seth, like many neuroscientists, just ignores philosophy in order to say things that "BLOW YOUR MIND!!111!" but when you actually think about them for 5 seconds they break down into nonsense and platitudes.
Agreed.
You are factually and logically incorrect. A hallucination is, by definition, the perception of something which is not actually present in reality. In other words, it's a trick of your brain. If we all hallucinated at the same time, it would NOT be the case (again, by definition) that the hallucination was reality. In fact, it would be very likely that we would find evidence later on that we had all hallucinated.
I've always liked gravy, .. really taste good : )
He said that we call it reality, not that it is reality. So I guess (according to him) when we all agree on a hallucination, we incorrectly dub it as reality?
6:15 "now listen to this:" and an ad pops up lol what a great timing omg
What is real? How do you define real? If "real" is what you can touch, smell, taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brian. - Morpheus
Morpheus is wrong : if real is what you can touch, smell and taste AND if real is just electric signals. Then you could touch, smell and taste electric signals.
No. I'm just logical and rigorous. You may think deeply.
Reality is what doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.
so far the most believable comment in here XD
amawalpe bro the electrical signals cant be touched smelled or tasted. Like are you kidding me the electric signals are sending transmissions to your brain that ALLOW you to touch taste and smell things.
I've learnt more and everything this few minutes about the brain, than I have my whole life. Dude is out of this universe
whole life?really?🤣
"We predict ourselves into existence." GOLD
@Smidlee isnt that the real question - manifest from external or from within?
A thing cannot cause itself, as it wouldn't be there to cause anything in the first place. Anything needs to be caused by something external to it.
The opposite claim is not even intelligible.
@@andreab380 are you saying there is never a paradox in life? nothing ever questions the chicken or egg paradox?
Incredible seeing this guy live. What a legend!!!!!
"When the end of consciousness comes, there's _nothing_ to be afraid of." _Nothing_
What do you mean. I'm afraid of 'nothing' because I would love to be conscious and continue to exist as a form of higher consciousness or awareness that is free from the pains of physical limitations.
@@humanbeing1429 From what the guy was implying, he was saying that your brain essentially hallucinates your consciousness and once you die there is "nothing" to be conscious about and thus consciousness ceases to exist.
Jack Daniels But then once you're unconcious or are dead, you won't be afraid anymore because there is no you. Your fear ceases to exist along with your being. You might be scared up till the point where you're still concious but then after that there's literally nothing-ness for you. So fear not my friend~
@@zigaxyon9788 "Conciousness ceases to exist" this sounds ludicrous to me. How can that be? That is unimaginable. Even in deep sleep or coma we do experience( or are conscious of) the 'blackness' that we see, though that is not accompanied by the sense of "I".
@@sudipkumarroy3198 Yeah because you still have brain activity and your heart pumping blood into it. When you die the experiences just stop altogether.
I hear this and apply it to the spiritual practice of being in front my mirror and changing my mind about how I see myself. And therefore changing how people see me. I sometimes look at my reflection and see all of the issues I find with my skin and hair, my eyes. It can really bring me down. But I take out a second to say something different to myself. I go on about how fucking beautiful I am and how the bags under my eyes and the frizz in my hair is all a part of that. It changes how I feel. Suddenly I'm awake and walking on sunshine and the people around me see that and respond accordingly. I believe this is also an example of that lovely phrase "confidence is sexy". Because confidence starts within and is a projection of how a person sees themself. You are how and who you want to be, at the end of it all,, and the beginning.
i want to discuss about this?
Well said! Thanks for sharing! 💖
“Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.”
*...bold of you to assume i wasn’t already doing that*
dude everyday
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@Dylan Scott omg im having an internal ENFP crisis right now and this talk just, i don't even know anymore.
INFP here to say don't worry 'bout a thing because every little thing gonna be alright
On a very basic level, even though it’s very complex, we “hallucinate” colour, sound, taste and smell even though none of these exist outside of our brains. There are no such things as colours in the real world. There is light that has frequency and our brain associates this with colour but in a very weird way. Our brain doesn’t tell us the frequency of the light that is coming into our eyes and in fact it doesn’t know anything about frequency of the light. The brain is sent signals from sensors in our eyes and then somehow it creates what we call colour. We then use the colour to simplify what we see and detect its shape etc. As was shown in the talk, we don’t just perceive colours but we see what we expect to see which tends to help keep colours stable under different lighting conditions. It’s pretty amazing.
I wish he would have gone into greater detail about how exactly various brain regions function. For example, yes we're all hallucinating a prediction but it would be useful to know that the hallucination only occurs about 0.5 seconds before reality is perceived. Within that 0.5 seconds several brain regions including the amygdalae check the perceived reality to see if it matches what the brain was predicting. If an anomaly occurs and is small it doesnt produce very much of a stress response. If reality turns out to be far different from expected.....You'll experience a much stronger stress response.
This explains a lot. For example, if you've ever caught a loved one cheating on you, were you upset that they performed a physical act with another human? Or were you upset because it was completely unexpected? You were so in love with the person that you formed an assumption (prediction) about your future both short term AND long term and now suddenly that narrative (predictive hallucination) is dashed to bits as you realize you were wrong and have to imagine an entirely new future. When you suddenly became aware of the deception and betrayal your amygdalae screamed in protest and it took time for your brain to accept the new reality and begin predicting a new future.
Nice one
This is great, thank you
😱 yes! Great comment
One of the best TED talks I've seen!
yeah pretty new
Peter Foote I'm by no means new to TED yet thought this was one of the top 20 or so. Despite not being the most detailed TED talk out there, it provides an excellent basis to intrigue and inform someone who isn't as educated in this field, which in my opinion, is exactly what a TED talk should do. Also, this is TED, not TEDX.
Still with politics added in to it for no reason.
SioxerNic True, throwing your own political slant on things seems to be the flavour of the month (or the year). Though I don't think it detracts from the original message here, most talks would be better without.
Except for that recent one where the woman was talking about propaganda... The political slant on that allowed you to see through the veil of bullshit to her true agenda.
Devin Ott I agree
This is the most groundbreaking video i've ever seen. The person delivering this Ted is spectacular.
Science is so cool!
I broke the ground in my kitchen it was tiles dropped my wok they all cracked very bad day but later at park I found ten pound yippee
One of the most important talks about the brain I've ever watched.
Anil Seth does Not exactly have a NEW idea. Frank Herbert said this 70 years ago in his science fiction. Read the book Destination Void.
Having taken lsd a long time ago i heard this voice say something like this : "Dreams are so vivide, they can only become real"