Consciousness
No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!
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Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
Anil Seth is one of the most widely-read voices on consciousness working today. His 'controlled hallucination' framework treats perception as the brain's best guess about sensory input — and treats the self as the most persistent guess of all.
Their work
Key papers by Anil
Neuroscience of consciousness: cracking the hard problem
Nature Reviews Neuroscience · 2022
Theories of consciousness
Nature Reviews Neuroscience · 2022
A clean taxonomy of the major competing theories.
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Faber (book) · 2021
The trade book version — the clearest way in for anyone new to the ideas.
Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2025
Unpacking the Complexities of Consciousness: Theories and Reflections.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews · 2025
Hypothesis awareness confounds asynchronous control conditions in indirect measures of the rubber hand illusion
Royal Society Open Science · 2021
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