What makes you… you? (w/ Anil Seth)

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  You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.

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  I am your host, Chris Duffy.

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  But actually, how do I know that I'm your host, Chris Duffy?

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  How do I know that I am Chris Duffy?

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  Am I sure about that?

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  How do I know that I am me?

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  How do you know that you are you?

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  Are we actually conscious beings?

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  Are we just figments of someone's imagination or just bits in a simulation?

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  Today on the show, our guest is cognitive and computational neuroscientist, Anil Seth.

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  Enel is the author of Being You, A New Science of Consciousness,

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  and he and I are going to get into some weird and wild territory,

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  the kind of topics that you might discuss at 3 a.m. in a dorm room or after having eaten a very powerful edible.

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  But we're going to be talking about this using real science and trying to understand genuine advances in technology and research that are happening right now.

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  Here's a clip from Enel's TED Talk.

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  Just over a year ago.

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  For the third time in my life, I ceased to exist.

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  I was having a small operation.

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  My brain was filling with anesthetic.

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  I remember a sense of detachment and falling apart and coldness.

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