We follow the work of Anil Seth, a Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and Co-Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness.
Anil Seth argues, using innovative combinations of theory and experiment, that our brains are prediction machines inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond. Anil’s new perspective on consciousness has shed light on the nature of the self, free will, the intimate relationship between being alive and being aware – and the possibility of conscious machines.
Anil Seth’s full TED talk:
What’s fascinating about Professor Seth’s work is his approach to deconstructing the hard problem of consciousness as defined by Philosopher, David Chalmers. Professor Seth explains the striking parallels to our approach to understanding life itself through breaking down and analyzing the individual aspects of life through Biology. His TED talk has over hundreds of thousands of views and it’s no wonder. Professor Seth is well-studied and his ideas are unique, furthermore, the examples supporting that we are indeed building our conscious reality as much as our reality exists externally to our perception is a fascinating peek inside the human mind.