Can you really trust what you see? Errrr, no. Not at all. In the first episode of the series, Max Tobin meets neuroscientist Anil Seth, who demonstrates how our eyes often lie to us. But if we can’t trust what we see, how do our biases and social prejudices distort how we perceive the world?

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