Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination with Anil Seth
How does our biology give rise to the experience of consciousness Anil s new book Being You is available now: Watch the Q A: 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 is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also CoDirector of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, CoDirector of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and CoDirector of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perce
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