Anil Seth
[Seth (Anil Kumar)]
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Author Narrative:
- It seems - from Anil Seth's own words in BBC R3's Private Passions that Anil Seth was an undergraduate at King's Cambridge1.
- Quoting from the BBC Website:
- It’s the size and shape of a cauliflower, and weighs about 3 lbs. And yet the average human brain2 has so many intricate and complex connections that if you counted one connection every second it would take you more than three million years.
- Professor Anil Seth has devoted his career to trying to understand3 the brain4, puzzling over the mystery of consciousness itself5. He’s Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the Sackler Centre at the University of Sussex, and the author of a popular book, “The 30-second Brain”6.
- In Private Passions, he muses on how our consciousness of the world, and of ourselves7, is “one of the big central mysteries of life”. And it’s a mystery we face every day – when we fall asleep8 and when we wake up. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Anil Seth explores the concept9 of free will10 (he doesn’t believe in it); why music evokes such strong memories11; and how meditation changes the structure of the brain12.
- Music choices include Chopin, Bach, Nina Simone, and an ancient Hindi mantra.
- For his Sussex University page, see Sussex University: Anil Seth.
- For Wikipedia, see Wikipedia: Anil Seth.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 1:
- From the Register, it seems he was a Scholar in Natural Sciences who matriculated in 1990 and got Firsts in Tripos parts Ia, Ib & II.
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Authors, Books, Papers & Notes Citing this Author
| Author |
Title |
Medium |
Extra Links |
Read? |
| BBC, Ghosh (Pallab) |
Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds |
Paper  |
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Yes |
| Clark (Andy) |
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality |
Book  |
2 |
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| Kind (Amy) |
How to think about consciousness |
Paper |
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Yes |
| RIP |
The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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| Todman (Theo) |
RIP: The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts |
Note |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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| Wikipedia |
Hard problem of consciousness |
Paper |
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