Scientist, Author, Speaker


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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1/ Can AI be conscious? My @BBSjournal target article on ‘Conscious AI and biological naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s Ernst Mach symposium, here in beautiful Prague. The theme of the meeting is “conscious AI? functionalism and it’s alternatives”. Keynotes are me & Kathinka Evers https://emw.flu.cas.cz/

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