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The science of consciousness

Understanding the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the great challenges for 21st Century Science.

The neuroscience of consciousness.

Highlights of my research and outreach.

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The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller


Being You – A New Science of Consciousness

A 2021 Book of the Year (New Statesman, Economist, Bloomberg, Five Books), a 2021 Science Book of the Year (Guardian, Financial Times). Being You is out now in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audio.

Consciousness at TED


Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality

My main-stage TED talk has more than 14 million views.

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Our VR-based study investigating how the complexity of sensorimotor coupling rules affects visual awareness of 3D objects is now published in Consciousness & Cognition: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810025001278?dgcid=coauthor 👁️🌐 #VirtualReality

with: D. Schwartzman, @anilkseth @ksk_S 🎉

I highly recommend this discussion on consciousness, between two people I respect greatly @pgodfreysmith and Alex O'Connor @CosmicSkeptic 🧠

I'm delighted to be heading back to Oxford today, to talk about The Mystery of Consciousness with Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis @bigthink, 7pm at The North Wall Cultural Centre

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