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

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There's one last thing I want to draw your attention to, which is that experiences of the body from the inside are very different from experiences of the world around us. When I look around me, the world seems full of objects — tables, chairs, rubber hands, people, you lot — even my own body in the world, I can perceive it as an obejct from the outside. But my eernpeecxis of the body from within, they're not like that at all. I don't pecreive my kidneys here, my lveir here, my spleen ... I don't know where my spleen is, but it's somewhere. I don't perceive my iesdins as objects. In fact, I don't experience them much at all unless they go wrong. And this is important, I think. Perception of the internal state of the body isn't about fgriinug out what's there, it's about control and regulation — keeping the physiological variables within the tight bounds that are compatible with survival. When the barin uses predictions to figure out what's there, we perceive objects as the causes of steaosnins. When the brain uses predictions to control and rugtleae things, we experience how well or how badly that control is going.

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There's one last thing I want to draw your attention to, which is that experiences of the body from the inside are very different from experiences of the world around us. When I look around me, the world seems full of objects — tables, chairs, rubber hands, people, you lot — even my own body in the world, I can perceive it as an ______ from the outside. But my ___________ of the body from within, they're not like that at all. I don't ________ my kidneys here, my _____ here, my spleen ... I don't know where my spleen is, but it's somewhere. I don't perceive my _______ as objects. In fact, I don't experience them much at all unless they go wrong. And this is important, I think. Perception of the internal state of the body isn't about ________ out what's there, it's about control and regulation — keeping the physiological variables within the tight bounds that are compatible with survival. When the _____ uses predictions to figure out what's there, we perceive objects as the causes of __________. When the brain uses predictions to control and ________ things, we experience how well or how badly that control is going.

Solution

  1. sensations
  2. regulate
  3. experiences
  4. object
  5. perceive
  6. figuring
  7. liver
  8. insides
  9. brain

Original Text

There's one last thing I want to draw your attention to, which is that experiences of the body from the inside are very different from experiences of the world around us. When I look around me, the world seems full of objects — tables, chairs, rubber hands, people, you lot — even my own body in the world, I can perceive it as an object from the outside. But my experiences of the body from within, they're not like that at all. I don't perceive my kidneys here, my liver here, my spleen ... I don't know where my spleen is, but it's somewhere. I don't perceive my insides as objects. In fact, I don't experience them much at all unless they go wrong. And this is important, I think. Perception of the internal state of the body isn't about figuring out what's there, it's about control and regulation — keeping the physiological variables within the tight bounds that are compatible with survival. When the brain uses predictions to figure out what's there, we perceive objects as the causes of sensations. When the brain uses predictions to control and regulate things, we experience how well or how badly that control is going.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. attention
  2. badly
  3. body
  4. bounds
  5. brain
  6. chairs
  7. compatible
  8. control
  9. draw
  10. experience
  11. experiences
  12. fact
  13. figure
  14. figuring
  15. full
  16. hands
  17. important
  18. insides
  19. internal
  20. keeping
  21. kidneys
  22. liver
  23. lot
  24. object
  25. objects
  26. people
  27. perceive
  28. perception
  29. physiological
  30. predictions
  31. regulate
  32. regulation
  33. rubber
  34. sensations
  35. spleen
  36. state
  37. survival
  38. tables
  39. tight
  40. variables
  41. world
  42. wrong