Anil Seth
Neuroscientist of consciousness at the University of Sussex; author of Being You.
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- Anil Seth is a British neuroscientist who studies consciousness.
- He is professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex.
- He co-directs the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and edits the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.
- His book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness came out in 2021.
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- Born
- 11 June 1972, Oxford1
- Now
- Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex; co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (with Hugo Critchley, from 2010); editor-in-chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness1
- Book
- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Faber & Faber, 2021)1
- Award
- Berggruen Prize Essay Competition 2025 (English) for "The Mythology Of Conscious AI", published in Noema1
- Before
- Postdoctoral and associate fellow at The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, 2001 to 20061
- Education
- Natural Sciences, King's College, Cambridge (1994); MSc Knowledge-Based Systems (1996) and DPhil in computer science and AI (2001), University of Sussex1
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