Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex
I'm a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. My research is into the brain basis of consciousness, the nature of perception, and what it means to be a self.
EXPs by Anil Seth
The question of how consciousness happens is probably one of the biggest mysteries that still remain in science and in philosophy.
Sensory information that comes into the brain is necessarily ambiguous and noisy. In order to make sense of these signals, the brain has to combine its prior expectations about the causes of these signals.
The self is not what does the perceiving. In fact, the self is itself a kind of perception. The philosopher David Hume called this the bundle theory of self.