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From the Ted Talk by Anil Seth: How your brain invents your "self"
Unscramble the Blue Letters
How things are is very different, and the story of how and why this is so is what I want to give you a flavor of today. In this story, the self is not the thing that does the perceiving. The self is a perception too, or rather, it's the cltiocelon of related perceptions. Experiences of the self and of the wolrd turn out to be kinds of controlled hallucinations, brain-based best guesses that remain tied to the world and the body in ways determined not by their accuracy, but by their utiilty, by their usefulness for the organism in the binuesss of snyitag alive.
Open Cloze
How things are is very different, and the story of how and why this is so is what I want to give you a flavor of today. In this story, the self is not the thing that does the perceiving. The self is a perception too, or rather, it's the __________ of related perceptions. Experiences of the self and of the _____ turn out to be kinds of controlled hallucinations, brain-based best guesses that remain tied to the world and the body in ways determined not by their accuracy, but by their _______, by their usefulness for the organism in the ________ of _______ alive.
Solution
- business
- staying
- utility
- collection
- world
Original Text
How things are is very different, and the story of how and why this is so is what I want to give you a flavor of today. In this story, the self is not the thing that does the perceiving. The self is a perception too, or rather, it's the collection of related perceptions. Experiences of the self and of the world turn out to be kinds of controlled hallucinations, brain-based best guesses that remain tied to the world and the body in ways determined not by their accuracy, but by their utility, by their usefulness for the organism in the business of staying alive.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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