What gives meaning to life? I asked my Mum .. in today's Guardian (along with 14 others)
Scientist, Author, Speaker
The science of consciousness
Understanding the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the great challenges for 21st Century Science.
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.
Interviews and conversations.
Academic and public engagement projects.
What’s coming up and what’s happened.
Consciousness at TED
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
My main-stage TED talk has more than 14 million views.
"A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" Our comment (Àlex Gómez-Marin & me) on the IIT clash; out now in Nature Neuroscience.
I'm delighted to make the Clarivate 'Highly Cited' researcher list, for the fifth year running - along with 5 other Sussex academics:
New paper in PLoS Biology on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancment - with Emma Gordon.
I'm looking forward to delivering the 2024 Charles Simonyi Lecture in Oxford next Friday, Nov 1st, at the wonderful Oxford Playhouse, and hosted by Marcus Du Sautoy 🙏🏽. The title is 'consciousness in humans and in other things', kick off is at 5pm, and tickets still available here.
I've just posted a new preprint on "Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism". Read it here
Should we all be putting chips in our brains? See my Guardian 'Big Idea' article on the prospects/ethics of neural implantation.
Meet Anil Seth @SynapseConclave, India’s most thought-provoking science tech society conference, on 22-23 Feb 2025.
A radical neuroscientist, Seth has been studying the ‘inner diversity’ of our brain and how it shapes our view of the world for decades.
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“What happens when you get to the bottom of things?” Beautiful,elegiac piece in @QuantaMagazine by Amanda Gefter on John Wheeler and the mysteries that remain
This paper looks remarkable: findings of "voluntary passive movement" - a form of play - in fruit flies.
🧵, link below.
Voluntary passive play: an example in humans is riding a carousel.
Also seen in flies. Via @wolfhuette and collaborators. 1/