Anil Seth
Anil Kumar Seth | |
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Born | |
Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA) University of Sussex (MSc, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience |
Institutions | University of Sussex |
Thesis | On the Relations between Behaviour, Mechanism, and Environment: Explorations in Artificial Evolution (2000) |
Doctoral advisors | Hilary Buxton Phil Husbands |
Website | www |
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 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
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
Since 2010 Seth is co-director (with Prof. Hugo Critchley) of the Sussex 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
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
- 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
Seth appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary The Most Unknown[20] on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.
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