Anil Seth

Anil Kumar Seth
Born (1972-06-11) 11 June 1972 (age 52)
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 an 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.

  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.
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