Anil Seth – Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality

By Applied Change

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This is an old favourite of ours as it shows just how easily we are tricked into beliefs and perspectives that turn out to be different to what we initially thought.

As a psychologist friend of ours said in one of his talks, hold your beliefs lightly as they may turn out to be wrong, even when you’re convinced you’re right. When we’re judging others for actions or behaviours we don’t understand, it’s always worth asking what am I missing here?

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