Anil Seth

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Anil Kumar Seth
Seth in 2019
Born (1972-06-11) 11 June 1972 (age 54)
Oxford, England
EducationKing's College, Cambridge (BA)
University of Sussex (MSc, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
ThesisOn the Relations between Behaviour, Mechanism, and Environment: Explorations in Artificial Evolution (2000)
Doctoral advisorsHilary Buxton
Phil Husbands
Websitewww.anilseth.com

Anil Kumar Seth (born 11 June 1972) is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness,[1] he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally.[2]

Seth holds a BA (promoted to an MA per tradition) in natural science from King's College, Cambridge, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Sussex. Seth has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters, and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.[3] He is a regular contributor to New Scientist, The Guardian[4] and the BBC,[5] and writes the blog NeuroBanter.[6]

He is related to the Indian novelist and poet Vikram Seth.[citation needed]

Early life and education

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Seth was born in Oxford[7] and grew up in Letcombe Regis,[8] a village in rural South Oxfordshire. His father, Bhola Seth, obtained a BSc from Allahabad University in 1945, before migrating from India to the United Kingdom to study engineering at Cardiff. Bhola Seth subsequently obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield, was a research scientist at the Esso Research Centre in Abingdon, and won the veterans' world doubles title in badminton in 1976. His mother, Ann Delaney, came from Yorkshire.[9]

Seth went to school at King Alfred's Academy in Wantage. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, King's College, Cambridge, 1994), Knowledge-Based Systems (M.Sc., Sussex, 1996) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (D.Phil./Ph.D., Sussex, 2001). He was a postdoctoral and associate fellow at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California (2001–2006).[citation needed]

Career

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Since 2010 Seth has been co-director (with Hugo Critchley) of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science,[10] and editor-in-chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness.[3] He was conference chair of the 16th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and continuing member 'at large'[11] and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project.[12] He was president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association in 2017.[13][14]

Publications

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Seth has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters, and is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness.[3] He is a regular contributor to New Scientist, The Guardian[4] and the BBC,[5] and writes the blog NeuroBanter.[6] He also consulted for the popular science book, Eye Benders, which won the 2014 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize.[15] An introductory essay on consciousness has been published on Aeon – "The Real Problem" – a 2016 Editor's Pick. Seth was included in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List that was published by Clarivate Analytics.[16] Seth contributes articles on consciousness and perception to the website EXPeditions.[17]

Books

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  • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Faber and Faber, 2021)[18] – author
  • Brain Twisters (Ivy Press, 2015)[19] – consultant
  • 30 Second Brain (Ivy Press, 2014)[20] – editor and co-author
  • Eye Benders (Ivy Press, 2013)[21] – consultant
  • Modelling Natural Action Selection (Cambridge University Press, 2011)[22] – editor and co-author

Popularisation of science

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Seth appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary The Most Unknown[23] on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.

See also

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  • User illusion, an understanding of consciousness similar to Seth's

References

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