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… 0:14:10 Imagery vs Imagination: Why They Aren't the Same Word 0:17:04 Imagery, Perception, Hallucination, Dreaming: Where's the Line? 0:18:45 The Hyperphantasics Who Pro…

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… 0:16:01 Imagery vs Imagination: Why They Aren't the Same Word 0:18:55 Imagery, Perception, Hallucination, Dreaming: Where's the Line? 0:20:36 The Hyperphantasics Who Pro…

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… know, simple input output mappings. Whereas in biological systems we have this perception action loop. Right? I see my bottle on the table and I can verify my prediction…

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…al scotomas often don't notice; people with significant colour-vision or motion-perception deficits often don't notice. Visual metacognition — knowing what you can and ca…

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…governor of performance, how pain, thirst, heat, and oxygen deprivation are all perceptions, how world-record freedivers trick their brains into ignoring suffocation, why…

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…uthor exploring the intersection of mind, body, and environment. Understanding perception goes far beyond the brain—it’s about your entire body, your environment, and ho…

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…it's funny that bodily is in there. Of course it is. Interception is a type of perception, but it's not one that we typically list on the, you know, size, hearing, smell…

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…e energy patterns into the experience. But all of this, like all of fundamental perception through the senses, and even if you just close your eyes and or you go into a s…

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… of people out there who could like, could, you know, get dive really deep into perception. And if they came into the field of psychedelics, they would like come up with …

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…r yet for sure. Evan Mcgloughlin (01:02.74) Where do you think imagination and perception deviate? Where are they not the same? If imagination is using some of that perc…

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…Alex Hutchinson - Alex Hutchinson: The Lie That Unlocked Human Limits, Tricking Perception & Aphantasia!: https://youtu.be/YqqU4ckq8s8 GUEST LINKS Aarhus University Prof…

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….be/SgA2up6-Bok Alex Hutchinson - The Lie That Unlocked Human Limits, Tricking Perception & Aphantasia!: https://youtu.be/YqqU4ckq8s8 GUEST LINKS Aarhus University Prof…

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… told him reality isn't what it seems. Around 1986, after seven years modelling perception, the equations said we render the world on the fly, and he has been recovering …

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… told him reality isn't what it seems. Around 1986, after seven years modelling perception, the equations said we render the world on the fly, and he has been recovering …

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…In the context of an embryo, do, as it turns out, some of those genes relate to perception of sound. And we in our latest paper, we shown that we can actually, communica…

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…In the context of an embryo, do, as it turns out, some of those genes relate to perception of sound. And we in our latest paper, we shown that we can actually, communica…

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…vs Only Now 0:29:24 The Runner Who Lost Time 0:33:18 Why Marathons Destroy Time Perception 0:37:18 The Memories With No Timestamp 0:42:02 Your Brain Runs Many Clocks 0:43…

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…ve kind of figured out what is out there in the physical world. That gives us a perception of color. You know, we've figured out why a particular pitch comes from a parti…

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… made my left hand dissociate from my body alive, and it genuinely shattered my perception on what is possible with this strange technique. He turns his expertise into re…

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…In the context of an embryo, do, as it turns out, some of those genes relate to perception of sound. And we in our latest paper, we shown that we can actually, communica…

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…In the context of an embryo, do, as it turns out, some of those genes relate to perception of sound. And we in our latest paper, we shown that we can actually, communica…

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…In the context of an embryo, do, as it turns out, some of those genes relate to perception of sound. And we in our latest paper, we shown that we can actually, communica…

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…... GS Episodes Mentioned Anil Seth — Consciousness, Controlled Hallucination, Perception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSA06K0l1o Philip Ball — Quantum Mechanics, B…

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…nous Infusion Explained 1:11:23 Sending Specialists Into DMT Space 1:13:35 Time Perception on DMT 1:16:16 Surprises from DMTx Experiments 1:18:15 The Future of DMT Consci…

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… of The Brain from Inside Out — a radical rethinking of how the brain generates perception, memory, and consciousness. We’ve been asking the wrong questions about the mi…

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…radigm Shift Happening in Real Time 39:35 What Psychedelics Actually Do to Your Perception of Life 42:06 Music and Psychedelics: Why Lyrics Can Ruin a Trip 44:56 Can You …

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… reality, consciousness, and mental illness. In this episode, you’ll learn why perception is just a controlled hallucination, how our brains build reality through social…

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…essness in Research 01:10:01 Trust in Science: The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Perception Epstein 01:20:20 Epstein's Influence: Compromising Science and Ethics 01:23:32 …

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…ection of Neuroscience and AI 05:52 Understanding Consciousness: A Second Order Perception 08:53 Consciousness: An Evolved Property or Fundamental Reality? 12:03 The Conc…

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… they fail, and acting to make its predictions come true. Under this framework, perception is inference, action is prediction fulfilment, emotion is bodily forecasting, a…

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…consciousness as a fundamental feature of the universe, the interface theory of perception, and the radical idea that physics itself may emerge from networks of conscious…

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… and Mark Solms as they explore the deepest scientific questions we can ask. Is perception just the brain’s best guess? Do bacteria have primitive feelings? Why are nervo…

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…ital machine — it builds models of the world and uses top-down control to guide perception, attention, and action. He discovered mixed selectivity, showing that neurons f…

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…ces that give rise to awareness, why attention and emotion are inseparable, how perception is shaped by feedback rather than feedforward processing, what “surface shroud …

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…in plain English, how generative models, prediction errors, and precision shape perception and action, why the precuneus/PCC may serve as an inner canvas for conscious sc…

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…n organs, whether AI could ever “care” and what architecture it would need, how perception might be qualitative beyond representation, what split-brain, blindsight, anest…

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…nto Aphantasia 42:13 The Complexity of Mental Imagery 49:10 The Co-evolution of Perception and Imagery 52:16 Potential Benefits of Aphantasia 57:29 The Trainability of Vi…

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…7:33 Understanding Agency Across Species 01:20:40 The Concept of Umwelt and Perception 01:25:11 The Future of Biotech and Consciousness 01:31:43 Ethics of Brain…

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…overies Through AI Interactions 01:25:18 Social Hallucinations and AI's Role in Perception 01:28:55 Virtual Reality and the Blurring of Reality 01:31:08 The Future of Soc…

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…up to 500%, why the U.S. Department of Defense is studying it, how it warps our perception of time and self, why flow could help unlock the mystery of consciousness itsel…

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…l—by real-world harm, exposing how politics, potency and route of use twist our perceptions and our laws. Expect to learn why alcohol and tobacco still out-kill every il…

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…ential. Timestamps: 00:02:55 The Illusion of Reality: How Our Brain Constructs Perception 00:09:26 Mark Williams: A Journey from Struggles to Neuroscience 00:16:46 Reima…

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… 06:06 Understanding Dinosaur Behavior: Methods and Evidence 10:05 The Public Perception vs. Scientific Reality 11:27 Group Behaviour in Dinosaurs: Myths and Facts …

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…s the brain’s hidden architecture: how we fuse the senses, how attention shapes perception, and why reality itself might just be a controlled hallucination. Expect to le…

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…ion. It’s a tool for persuasion, manipulation, and coordination. It rewires our perception, memory, emotions, and beliefs — often without us even realizing it. Expect to…

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…pproaches to Mathematics 01:31:32 The Emotional Impact of Imagery 01:32:57 Risk Perception and Empathy in Aphantasia 01:35:09 Understanding Aphantasia Prevalence 01:36:28…

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…t is simply a representation *within* consciousness, why evolution selected for perception that hides the truth, how AI may already be tapping into conscious patterns, th…

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…ewers, and his groundbreaking book Being You explores the incredible mystery of perception and consciousness. Buy Being You (It's Genuinely Great) - https://amzn.to/4ccA…

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…anding how your neurons adapt, how sensory substitution can unlock entirely new perceptions, and the profound ethical implications of brain-machine interfaces like Neural…

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…make everyday tasks more daunting, how much VR technology can improve real-life perception, why embracing neurodiversity fosters deeper human understanding, and much more…

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…ion really increases self-awareness, and the astonishing story of a woman whose perception of reality was forever altered by this method. This episode will make you ques…

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…ms in the brain, how we build evidence in a manner shaped by our experience and perceptions and ultimately how we make heavily biased decisions. He's won many awards and …

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…ivity and the Complexity of the Brain 01:18:16 Synesthesia and the Diversity of Perception 01:32:01 The Myth of Growth Mindset: Lack of Solid Evidence Dr. Kevin Mitchell…

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…e. And then the reorganization starts and people have visuals and various other perceptions to have that, have that, experience. Some people describe. Speaker 2 Seeing …

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…ke, how much of my own kind of, imaginal overlay am I kind of forcing onto this perception to to kind of cram it into this, like into what it's meant to be? Speaker 2 B…

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…, in some of the so-called psychedelics, perceptually you are alter really your perception is really alter not what heroin. It's not so altered. It's like just chilling. …

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…th just how weird the DMT experiences. And if DMT is playing a role in everyday perception of reality, you know, where does that lead us? I mean, yeah, it's it's a very. …

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…e. And then the reorganization starts and people have visuals and various other perceptions to have that, have that, experience. Some people describe. Speaker 2 Seeing …

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…n all the information that he had collected throughout life. Speaker 2 So our perceptions, including our consciousness, it's this conflict between what we call bottom u…

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…it to Laura Huxley, who was the widow of Aldous Huxley, who wrote, The Doors of Perception, a tremendous book, this timeless moment, because Aldous, as he was dying in 19…

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…ke, how much of my own kind of, imaginal overlay am I kind of forcing onto this perception to to kind of cram it into this, like into what it's meant to be? Speaker 2 B…

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…um as well. And the claustrum has long been thought to be a hub, basically, for perception. Crick, the famous scientist who solved the structure of DNA, later in his life…