Brain hallucinates our conscious reality
Right now billions of neurons in our brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, our experience of the world around us and of ourselves within it.
How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we are all hallucinating all the time. When we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality."
Seth takes us on a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave us all questioning the very nature of our existence.
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What is the True Nature of Existence?
American Buddhist monk Bhikkhu Bodhi; Wisdom Quarterly; UrbanDharma.org
American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi once created a ten-part audio course on Buddhism called "The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is" while living in Washington Buddhist Vihara in DC. One of the talks explains reality:
How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we are all hallucinating all the time. When we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality."
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| Life's not what it seems: Seeing's not believing |
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American Buddhist monk Bhikkhu Bodhi; Wisdom Quarterly; UrbanDharma.org
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| A buddha is a supremely enlightened teacher like the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. |
American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi once created a ten-part audio course on Buddhism called "The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is" while living in Washington Buddhist Vihara in DC. One of the talks explains reality:- The True Nature of Existence - MP3 - 1:18 min - 18 MB
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