Luis Cásedas
Dept. de Psicología Básica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España
(cc) Anil Seth.
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. He is a leading voice in contemporary consciousness research and the author of Being you: A new science of consciousness. In this interview, I talk with Dr. Seth about the science and philosophy of consciousness. The conversation covers his ‘real problem’ approach to consciousness, the idea of perception as ‘controlled hallucination’, the constructed nature of the self, and the role of intellectual humility in scientific disagreement. The interview concludes with Dr. Seth discussing the Perception Census, an ambitious citizen science project aimed at mapping the diversity of human experience.
