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How to study consciousness

80,000 hours, w/ Luisa Rodrigues, 2024

What shapes reality?

Unlocking the mind w/ Christof Koch, 2024

How to think about AI consciousness

Your Undivided Attention, w/ Aza Raskin, 2024

What’s inside your brain?

The Strombo Show, with George Stroumboulopoulos, 2024

Frankenstein with Anil Seth & Fiona Sampson

On The Road, Penguin Classics, 2023

How your brain creates your reality

Feel Better Live More with Rangan Chatterjee, 2023

What is the nature of consciousness?

The Joy of Why with Steven Strogatz (Quanta), 2023

How to think like a philosopher

With Julian Baggini and Simon Kirchin, 2023

Philippa Perry and Anil Seth

A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, 2023

What is consciousness & could machines have it?

Big Technology with Alex Kantrowitz, 2022

Altering reality

Different with Nicky Campbell (also BBC Radio 5), 2022

All about consciousness

The Adam Buxton Podcast, 2022

A mystery that matters

10% Happier with Dan Harris, 2022

Consciousness, Self, and Voltion

The Michael Shermer Show, 2022

Conversation with Anil Seth, Being You

Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs, 2022

Consciousness, AI, and the metaverse

Exponential View with Azeem Azhar, 2022

Being you

Brain Inspired with Paul Middlebroks, 2021

Emergence, Information, and Consciousness

Mindscape with Sean Carroll, 2021

Life in the First Person

Start The Week, BBC Radio 4 (featured in Pick of the Week), 2021

Exploring Consciousness

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, 2021. Featured in the 2021 Brain Science annual review.

Consciousness at TED

The TED interview with Chris Anderson (live at the TED Summit), 2019

Consciousness and Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris, 2018

Private Passions

Conversation and music with Michael Berkeley, BBC Radio 3, 2018

The real problem of consciousness

Philosophy Bites with Nigel Warburton, 2017

The Life Scientific

With Jim Al-Khalili, BBC Radio 4, 2015

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Consciousness in humans and in other things

The 2024 Royal Society Faraday Lecture, 2024

What makes you, you? A conversation with Yara Shahidi

TED Intersections, 2024

Why conscious AI is a bad, bad idea

Nautilus: Behind the Scenes, 2023

Does consciousness extend beyond brains?

The 2023 Holberg debate. With Rupert Sheldrake and Tanya Luhrmann, 2023

We live in a controlled hallucination

Triggernometry, 2023

The Dreamachine

BBC Click, 2022

Do we all see the world the same way?

BBC Ideas, 2022

How your brain invents your ‘self’

TED talk, 2021

The scientific problem of consciousness

Quanta, 2021

The Search

Documentary film by Patrick Payne, 2020
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How we build perception from the inside out

In conversation with Nigel Warburton, Aeon Video, 2020 Featured in Aeon’s ‘most popular’ list for 2020

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Documentary film by Ric Burns, 2019
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The Promise of Psychedelics

World Science Festival, New York, 2019

The Most Unknown

Feature documentary by Ian Cheney, Vice/Motherboard, 2018 Watch the trailer

Consciousness & Creation

Animated short by Lazy Chief, created for the Future of StoryTelling Summit (FoST), 2018

Wired Tech Support

I answer neuroscience questions from twitter, live and with strange props, 2018

Our experience of reality

Vice/Motherboard, 2018

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality

Main-stage TED talk, 2017

The science of consciousness

How The Light Gets In, London, 2021

Consciousness: the worlds deepest mystery

Online course, New Scientist Academy, 2021
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A new science of consciousness

Closer To Truth, 2021

The experience of being me

EXPeditions, 2021
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How your brain works

Online course, New Scientist Academy, 2021
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The Disordered Eye

Documentary by Richard Butchins, BBC4, 2020
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Brain Surgeons: Between Life and Death

Documentary by Jack MacInnes, Channel 4, 2020

Living in Chaos

Documentary TV show, VPRO (Holland), 2019

The Reality of Reality

World Science Festival, New York, 2019

The Joy of AI

Documentary TV show, BBC Four, 2018

Why reality may just be a hallucination

Business Insider, 2018

The Story of Now

Documentary TV series with Idris Elba, 2015