In the Media
Interviews
See below for a selection of podcast and interviews, and media profiles.
2020
- How our minds predict our reality (Mind & Life Institute)
- How we build perception from the inside out (Aeon video)
2019
- Under the Skin, with Russell Brand (preview, part one and part two)
- The TED Interview, with Chris Anderson (recorded live at TED Summit, Edinburgh)
- Neuroscience News (interview recorded at BNA2019 in Dublin)
- Impacted (Sussex University podcast about impactful resesarch)
- Bulletproof Radio (podcast interview with Dave Asprey)
- Desde el Jardín (interview with Cristian Warnken)
- Consciousness and perception (BBC Mundo, in Spanish
- Qué es la conciencia (La Tercera, in Spanish)
- See here for more coverage of my participation in Congreso Futuro
2018
- Tabula Interview about consciousness (Georgian newspaper)
- El Mostrador Interview about consciousness (Chilean newspaper)
- Private Passions (interview with musical choices, with Michael Berkeley, for BBC Radio 3)
- Interview for The Most Unknown (Vice Motherboard)
- TED Radio Hour (National Public Radio with Guy Raz)
- Consciousness and Self (Waking Up with Sam Harris – careful, its 3 hours long!)
- A Neuroscientist Explains (The Guardian, with Daniel Glaser)
- Perception as a controlled hallucination (Smart Drugs Smart, with Jesse Lawler)
- The ‘genius interview’ (Baku, with Michael Brooks)
- Consciousness and mental health (The Science of Success, with Matt Bodnar)
- Why reality may just be a hallucination (Business Insider)
- Neuroscience Support (Wired Magazine Tech Support)
2017
- Is perception a controlled hallucination? (The Big Questions, features me and Andy Clark)
- Trip without the high: article about our ‘hallucination machine’ (The Times)
- Do animals dream of electric humans (The Independent, by Nick Turner)
- How scientists are manipulating the mind using VR (Wired)
- Philosophy Bites (podcast interview with Nigel Warburton, Jul 19)
- Who cares, what’s the point? (podcast interview, Jul 04)
- How does consciousness happen? (TED Blog, Apr 27)
- Uploading consciousness (Inverse.com, Apr 27)
- How AI will change the world (The Guardian, podcast, Apr 27)
- The mind-scrambling TED talk I won’t stop sharing (Wired, Apr 27)
- Full page profile in the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) quarterly bulletin (Mar 27)
- Short interview about consciousness and AI, BNA Bulletin (Mar 27)
- In Conversation with Kevin Fong on public engagement (Wellcome Trust, Jan 12)
2016
- Big mysteries: What is consciousness? Guardian Science Weekly podcast
2015
- Featured on “The Life Scientific” with Jim Al-Khalili (BBC Radio 4, June 16)
- Feature interview ‘The Thinker’ (Japanese, 考える人, p.68-71, Apr 10)
2014
- Consciousness, The Hard Problem (The Guardian, July 14, podcast + video)
2012
- Consciousness: The hard problem (The Guardian, Feb)
2011 & earlier
- My bright idea, feature interview (The Observer, May 2010)
- One minute with Anil Seth (New Scientist, Apr 2010)
- Af lífænni meðvitund og frelsi viljans (Morgenblaðið, Apr 2005)