The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
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Published 2017-02-01
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Anil provides an insight into the state-of-the-art research in the new science of consciousness. Distinguishing between conscious level, conscious content and conscious self, he describes how new experiments are shedding light on the underlying neural mechanisms in normal life as well as in neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Anil Seth is 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 Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project.
He has written popular science books, including 30 Second Brain, and contributes to a variety of media including the New Scientist, The Guardian, and the BBC.
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All Comments (21)
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Thanks to a very kind Spanish speaker, we now have Spanish language subtitles for this incredible video. Thank you so much. Gracias!
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The fact that i can watch and learn this for free is truly a gift!!
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It is good to be alive these days .Such a bounty of information.
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The more I learn about consciousness the more capable I feel of influencing it for the betterment of my life. Thank you for the talk.
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I always love listening to talks about consciousness.
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An excellent talk; clear and orderly presentation, tempered claims with basic evidences provided. Thank you Professor Anil Seth, and thank you to The Royal Institution for making these talks public!
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Fascinating talk. "You can think of perception as controlled hallucination" "Normal perception is a fantasy that is constrained by reality"
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"I predict myself, therefore I am". I am a strange loop.
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Psychedelics featured positively on a respected platform ♥️♥️♥️ you all should know what it is to be hyper-conscious
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I am so grateful and I want to thank you for the lectures that I heard from you. You belong to a growing group in the world that teaches and illuminates and heals many dark and wounded souls. I don't know Neuroscience of Consciousness but in my opinion an excellent and amazing lecture. You have personally enlightened me important points in the physics and medical sciences. So I would like to wish you Good luck to you Anil Seth For any way you choose to go Always that the cosmos will illuminates to you the way even in the darkest places. Love you.❤️
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This has been the best talk on consciousness I have ever seen. It really shows the progress that is being made.
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Thank you Anil Seth and The Royal Institution. I find you very effective "Information Sharers". AND, because of your Brilliance and Generosity, I have become more "informed" about this fascinating and seldom discussed/understood subject. I prefer to "learn better" than to "know better". Thank You for Advancing My Learning!, Ted Furlo
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Thank you Royal institution and Anil Seth for this. This was amazing.
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I was comatose after a car accident in 2005. During this time I was more conscious than when I was awake. I cannot explain this nor have I met a doctor who could. Consciousness is forever.
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What brilliant talk! Thanks for sharing this for everybody and thanks to Anil Seth for his contribution.
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Yet again another superb lecture. A fascinating insight into aspects of how the brain works, what consciousness is and how we can use this knowledge. I hope there will be more lectures on this subject.
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Excellent! Thank you for such and insightful and engaging talk on such a fascinating subject.
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I will not agree that nothing interesting has been written about consciousness until 1999 but I deeply admire the intensity of the will, to find what it is and what it is not, shown in this masterful presentation.
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It is truly amazing that so little is known about what is arguably the closest thing to us.
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Absolutely the clearest explanation for a very complex phenomenon I know of .
