TED Intersections: An actor and a neuroscientist answer: What makes you "you"? | Yara Shahidi and Anil Seth

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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What can acting reveal about the mystery of consciousness? Actor and producer Yara Shahidi and cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth unpack the surprising ways that portraying different characters can reveal insights about our authentic selves — even if we're not actually performing onstage or onscreen. Explore the intersection of consciousness and identity and discover how our brains and bodies work in tandem to form our understanding of ourselves. (This conversation is part of “TED Intersections,” a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts navigating the ideas shaping our world.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.4	Today we have something special, a new original series from TED called Intersections,
0:21.2	featuring speakers and experts taking on subjects at the
0:24.2	intersection of their expertise. First up actor and producer Yara Shaheidi and
0:29.4	cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth sit down to explore why we are who we are and how acting can
0:36.4	offer a perspective on understanding ourselves.
0:39.9	That and more, after the break.
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1:16.2	And I'm grateful that they impaired us
1:19.2	because I feel like there is such an interesting overlap
1:21.9	in acting and how I viewed myself over time and I thought
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