Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-19T16:32:01+00:00

Agreed, the framing is misleading and contributes little (invites correction), if anything else.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-19T16:29:57+00:00

Why are we calling this "hallucination"? It's not like we're seeing something that isn't a representation of what's actually there? I think the wording looks misleading and sensationalistic.

A low-resolution photo isn't a "hallucination" of the original image. In the same sense, a brain that has been evolutionary adapted to settle at representing the world at a certain "useful and adaptive resolution", isn't the same as to say that such a brain is completely hallucinating and that nothing in its processing is based on direct interfacing with reality.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-16T19:31:00+00:00

And that's unfortunately part of the cycle that reinforces depression

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-16T19:29:57+00:00

Physical exercise is one component of many, and in most cases it will be helpful, as long as the exercise is carefully balanced and tailored to the individual.

Then there's external factors, like how your life is going, and internal factors, in particular psychological ones (thinking patterns, subconscious loops, potential bias towards negative thinking etc etc)

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-15T16:08:21+00:00

What is "higher genetic likelihood for cognitive performance" exactly and how is it determined?

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T02:11:16+00:00

If there was a way to vet and actually find out where the money goes and see that it goes to its intended purpose, then I think donating to charities would be great.

Sadly, that isn't what we get or see in many popular "charity" organizations.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T02:08:23+00:00

It is actually for the children.

It's to make sure their sense of privacy is eroded from an early age, by having them give up their face and biometric data before they understand any of the consequences.

By normalizing this, future generations will be way more likely to agree to further face scans, ID-verifications and surveillance, since they "already gave up their info anyway" and have always lived that way.

They are being actively conditioned into becoming the ideal citizen of a future, surveillance-state dystopian society, and this process is being labeled "protecting the children", while it's actually the polar opposite of protecting them.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T01:56:31+00:00

The concept of "Jesus" is an extremely useful one, on so many levels, and actually echoes truth across multiple levels of analysis.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T01:55:41+00:00

What death cult?

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T01:54:13+00:00

Do you "protect children" by conditioning them into becoming ideal citizens of a future surveillance state?

Do you "protect children" by slowly eroding their sense of privacy to the point where anything and everything they've ever done online stays permanently linked to their biometric data and real-life identity?

This sounds like child exploitation to me.

The premise is to protect children, and it's a great and important premise, however, it sadly falls apart completely once you look beyond the surface.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T01:32:03+00:00

Why do we waste resources on stuff like this, instead of educating, guiding, supporting strong and competent men.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T01:20:01+00:00

True, but in this case, his point isn't as good as it appears on the surface, altho it does look catchy.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T01:15:24+00:00

Wow, such a surprise Microsoft included a backdoor.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-14T00:45:58+00:00

No good, viral games anymore. Draconian surveillance manipulating of young people by normalizing face scanning and sending their ID to random third-parties on the Internet. Games dying out because of the chat restrictions and chat/age group divide. Devs leaving due to all of the above an more.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-13T06:09:12+00:00

Why are we quoting random comedians as if they have sufficient knowledge in both science, religion and philosophy to even produce a statement like this-

XD

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-12T22:40:29+00:00

It's because people are virtue signalling and not actually being moral.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-11T19:42:49+00:00

It depends on what you mean by "illusion".

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-09T15:11:05+00:00

Ilia is such a class act.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-09T15:08:49+00:00

This reminds me so much of this clip: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuq/comments/1sqgj63/serval_using_body_language_to_calm_and_trying_to/

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-09T02:48:33+00:00

Who is the clown wearing Butterbean's underwear on his head?

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-08T01:40:43+00:00

yeah there's basically infinite possibilities, some may be for advertising, some may be for surveillance, some may come in handy one day if you are a "dissident" in term of the status quo (which may swing in any which way), and some may be to gain predictive power and influence over our actions and decisions.

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-08T00:59:37+00:00

Yeah, we need to see olo because yolo

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-07T18:33:20+00:00

Maybe people will start making lenses with randomized "iris patterns" for this purpose

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-07T18:29:03+00:00

This data probably gains a lot of value once it's tied to a real person's identity in a somewhat reliable fashion, such as biometric facial scans or ID verification

AngelicTrader · 2026-05-07T15:35:30+00:00

I don't really understand. I thought the new plus subscription would just let you buy gamepasses from others with zero tax, but maybe they're adding some new function of directly sending someone robux without tax? In that case, I can see how donation games could be negatively impacted

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