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From the Ted Talk by Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality

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Now, I leave you with three icmlatponiis of all this. First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of pdiretoicn go wrong. Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology, because we can finally get at the mechanisms rather than just tearnitg the symptoms in conditions like depression and schizophrenia.

Second: what it means to be me cannot be reduced to or uploaded to a software program running on a robot, however smart or sophisticated. We are biological, flesh-and-blood aamilns whose conscious experiences are shaped at all levels by the baioogclil mechanisms that keep us alive. Just making cmopruets smarter is not going to make them sentient.

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Now, I leave you with three ____________ of all this. First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of __________ go wrong. Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology, because we can finally get at the mechanisms rather than just ________ the symptoms in conditions like depression and schizophrenia.

Second: what it means to be me cannot be reduced to or uploaded to a software program running on a robot, however smart or sophisticated. We are biological, flesh-and-blood _______ whose conscious experiences are shaped at all levels by the __________ mechanisms that keep us alive. Just making _________ smarter is not going to make them sentient.

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  1. biological
  2. treating
  3. prediction
  4. animals
  5. implications
  6. computers

Original Text


Now, I leave you with three implications of all this. First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of prediction go wrong. Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology, because we can finally get at the mechanisms rather than just treating the symptoms in conditions like depression and schizophrenia.

Second: what it means to be me cannot be reduced to or uploaded to a software program running on a robot, however smart or sophisticated. We are biological, flesh-and-blood animals whose conscious experiences are shaped at all levels by the biological mechanisms that keep us alive. Just making computers smarter is not going to make them sentient.

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Important Words


  1. alive
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  4. computers
  5. conditions
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  9. finally
  10. implications
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  17. neurology
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  26. schizophrenia
  27. sentient
  28. shaped
  29. smart
  30. smarter
  31. software
  32. sophisticated
  33. symptoms
  34. treating
  35. understanding
  36. uploaded
  37. world
  38. wrong