Anil Seth


“We're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it 'reality'.”

― Anil Seth


“Human consciousness is just a tiny region in a vast space of possible consciousnesses.”

― Anil Seth


“A good way to study a phenomenon is to see what happens when it disappears.”

― Anil Seth


“Anesthesia is a modern kind of magic. It turns people into objects and back again into people.”

― Anil Seth


“Everything that we perceive - consciously or unconsciously - is a construction of the brain.”

― Anil Seth


“In our daily life we are constantly filling in the blanks to try and make sense of things.”

― Anil Seth


“We are part of, not apart from, the rest of nature.”

― Anil Seth


“We don't just passively perceive the world. We actively generate it. The world we experience comes as much, if not more, from the inside out as from the outside in.”

― Anil Seth