The Neuroscience of Perception

Great video, what terrible noises they added over it. Unnecessary and spoiled the video

There is a big problem that I have with pop neuroscience of perception.

-It wants to replace the objective with the intersubjective ignoring the fact that other people are part of the external world themselves.
-If understand of the external world is not possible then consensus is also impossible, how would you know that they agree with you or that other people are not themselves just hallucinations?
-I do not posses a privilege access to other people which I do not posses for ordinary objects. It follows that if I don’t have understanding of external objects then I also do not have understanding of external people.

A beautiful way to realize one must meditate truly to attain the end of perception even if it’s for a moment.

Great video! Music a bit to loud

Great topic, but I won't show it to my studente because the subtitles are not accurate.

Excellent video. I can't get enough of this topic. I can't believe it's taken me so long to "see" how fascinating it truly is.

So, you don’t know how the people perceive you. Do you want to know? Or can you figure it out on your own?

Much much better job explaining it in the video than I would ever dream of being able to. When I try to 'use my words' to explain it, I get that look one gets when someone thinks you're crazy. It all circles back to perception. Wonder if neuroscientist experience a sort of Alice in wonderland effect in their career or just use their 'science' to stay grounded?

Im i the only one who doesn't see the horse and women

This is the best summary of perception I’ve come across so far. As a minor knitpick I’d suggest that if you were using audio in a deliberate way it was a little too much. For me the audio was particularly jarring, the audio version of a strobe light. If it was some deliberate attempt to strengthen encoding then perhaps adjust the volume down so it isn’t quite so overwhelming. Thank you for a wonderful video though. I will definitely subscribe to this channel.

Hello. Could you kindly share the name of the animator for this video?

The music is really stressful for that amount of time. everything else is great...

Awesome video!

that music is so annoying what is that

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Wait..I had to stop the video. This is the most fabulous visual animation I have ever seen! :D And I have seen quite a lot of them and I am a visual artist.

Incredible work

Wow this is really well made. Subscribed

Straight up, this just blew my FUCKING MIND. The fact that our brains really are just trying to piece together a reality. Then, depending on our beliefs we will actually see reality differently, things that we think are objective might actually be subjective. I always thought our brains were just filling in the cracks but they are drawing by numbers.

Thank you for the shared hallucination

how come in both footprint pictures they both look embossed

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:0 this is such a well produced video!!!! I love the animation and super good explanation!!!

"Hallucination" is a very poor choice of word to describe the process of perception. Anil Seth really needs to check the dictionary definition for the word "hallucination" and stop trying to undermine people's sense of reality. Perception is NOT hallucination, and it is not like hallucination either. The word "hallucination" relates to, literal definition, “an experience involving the APPARENT perception of something NOT PRESENT.” [Oxford Dictionary].

The fact that we TRANSLATE and INTERPRET basic sensory information about the world "out there" does not mean that perception is like "hallucination." TRANSLATION of one thing into another can be quite exact and result in a view that is even better than "raw" information. REPRESENTATION of sound waves – vibrations of particles within a substance (air or water) – in terms of SOUND, the experience of sound in our consciousness, gives us a great ability to DIFFERENTIATE between different frequencies and volumes of vibrations from which we can extract further information such as rhythm and begin to use sound waves in creative ways for music and language. Just because we TRANSLATE vibrations into the experience of SOUND, it does not mean that the experience of sound is a kind of "hallucination," for the word hallucination describes an experience of something that is NOT there which indicates a serious MALFUNCTION in the perception mechanism.

The signals in the brain are not "noisy" and "ambiguous." The brain is NOT "locked up inside the skull" since the brain is not some kind of separate entity with an identity of its own. The brain is an ORGAN that is part of the larger organism that is imbued with intelligence and sensory mechanisms all throughout. The brain definitely knows where the signals are coming from. It doesn't just look at the signals that somehow end up inside of itself. It knows that it is capturing a signal of light from the eye or of sound from the ear. The brain knows what it is capturing, and the processing and interpretation of that information is PRECISE and LOGICAL, not "noisy" and "ambiguous." Sure, it may not be "exact" in computer sense, but it is exact for the purpose of constructing a WORKABLE MODEL OF REALITY.

Anil needs to stop with the whole New Age "reality is only in your head" nonsense and get back to real science, if he actually wants to do science and not invent some new pseudo-scientific cult like Scientology.

Loved the video, thank you for creating it! Got here through The Atlantic YT chan, looking forward to exploring your other content!

Wow .

I'm glad I came across your channel.

Lisa Feldman Barrett said exactly this some years ago