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How your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth

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Perception as Controlled Hallucination: The Brain's Active Role in Reality

This chapter delves into how perception is a blend of sensory input and prior knowledge, creating our experience of reality. Through examples of illusions, it emphasizes that perception and our sense of self are actively generated constructs rather than mere receptions of external stimuli.

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