Chris Frith
Pioneering cognitive and social neuroscientist known for work on predictive processing, schizophrenia, theory of mind, and the social basis of consciousness; author of Making Up the Mind and Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 38min
#103 Meet The Social Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness
Chris Frith, pioneering cognitive and social neuroscientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, explains why perception is a controlled hallucination and how brains build reality through social connection. He discusses predictive processing, schizophrenia’s insights into belief, consciousness as a social adaptation, shared mental models, and whether AI or octopuses can have minds like ours.
