Anil Seth

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Anil K. Seth
Born
England
EducationKing's College, Cambridge (BA)
University of Sussex (MSc, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
Consciousness
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
ThesisOn the Relations between Behaviour, Mechanism, and Environment: Explorations in Artificial Evolution (2000)
Doctoral advisorsPhil Husbands
Hilary Buxton
Websitewww.anilseth.com

Anil Kumar Seth (born the 11th of 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 an BA (promoted to an MA per tradition) in natural science from the 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 the New Scientist, The Guardian,[4] and BBC,[5] and writes the blog NeuroBanter.[6]

He is related to the Indian novelist and poet Vikram Seth.

Early life and education[edit]

Seth was born in England. 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. His mother, Ann Delaney, came from Yorkshire. Seth's family was based in rural Oxfordshire. His father was a research scientist at the Esso Research Centre in Abingdon, and won the veterans' world doubles title in badminton in 1976.[7]

Seth went to school at King Alfred's Academy in Wantage. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, 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[edit]

Since 2010 Seth is co-director (with Prof. Hugo Critchley) of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science,[8] 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'[9] and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project.[10] He was president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association in 2017.[11][12]

Publications[edit]

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 the New Scientist, The Guardian,[4] and 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.[13] 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.[14]

Books[edit]

  • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Faber & Faber, 2021)[15] - Author
  • Brain Twisters (Ivy Press, 2015)[16] - Consultant
  • 30 Second Brain (Ivy Press, 2014)[17] - Editor and co-author
  • Eye Benders (Ivy Press, 2013)[18] - Consultant
  • Modelling Natural Action Selection (Cambridge University Press, 2011)[19] - Editor and co-author

Popularisation of science[edit]

Seth appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary The Most Unknown[20] on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.

See also[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Being You by Anil Seth — the construction of consciousness". www.ft.com. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  2. ^ Lane, Vicky Trendall. "Five University of Sussex academics among top 1% of most cited researchers in the world". The University of Sussex. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Editorial Board". academic.oup.com. Neuroscience of Consciousness. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Anil Seth". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Anil Seth on consciousness, The Life Scientific". BBC.co.uk. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. ^ a b "About". NeuroBanter. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  7. ^ Anil Seth, "Bhola Seth Obituary", The Guardian, 3 July 2013. Accessed 21 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Anil Seth at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science". sussex.ac.uk. University of Sussex. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness". theassc.org. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Advisory Board". Human Mind Project. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Psychology Section". British Science Association. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Who we are". sites.google.com. BSA Psychology. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  13. ^ GrrlScientist (17 November 2014). "Royal Society Young People's Book Prize winner announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  14. ^ Vowles, Neil. "University celebrates record year for professors in global highly cited researchers list". The University of Sussex. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Being You – Anil Seth". Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  16. ^ Clive., Gifford (2015). Brain Twisters : the science of feeling and thinking. Seth, Anil. Lewes: Ivy. ISBN 9781782402046. OCLC 899705249.
  17. ^ 30-second brain : the 50 most mind-blowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute. Seth, Anil., Bekinschtein, Tristan. New York: Metro Books. 2014. ISBN 9781435147843. OCLC 875565756.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  18. ^ Clive., Gifford (2013). Eye benders. Seth, Anil, 1976-. Lewes: Ivy. ISBN 9781782400844. OCLC 861317419.
  19. ^ Seth., Anil (2011). Modelling natural action selection. Prescott J, Tony.,Bryson J, Joanna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107000490. OCLC 934350929.
  20. ^ "The Most Unknown (2018) - IMDb". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.

External links[edit]

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