Consciousness20 min

Being You — Anil Seth on the controlled hallucination

Seth’s predictive-processing account of consciousness: the self as a model the brain maintains, not a ghost in the machine.

Anil Seth · Being You / public talks & essays

Seth’s work is a bridge between neuroscience labs and public philosophy: perception as controlled hallucination, interoception as the root of selfhood.

For Headtap, this is the empirical consciousness desk — testable claims about how brains generate experience.

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