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Anil Seth

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Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and author of the bestselling book Being You—A New Science of Consciousness.

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Neuroscience

Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness

The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

April 30, 2025
Philosophy

I Never Stopped Learning from Daniel Dennett

Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness.

May 2, 2024
Neuroscience

The Worth of Wild Ideas

Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

September 27, 2023
Neuroscience

Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet

How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off.

July 5, 2023
Technology

Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea

Our minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.

May 8, 2023
Neuroscience

We Are Beast Machines

We understand conscious experiences only in light of our nature as living creatures.

October 13, 2021