Anil Seth
Anil Seth | |
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 Seth in 2019 | |
| Born | Anil Kumar Seth 11 June 1972 Oxford, England |
| Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA) University of Sussex (MSc, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Workplaces | University of Sussex |
| Thesis | On the Relations between Behaviour, Mechanism, and Environment: Explorations in Artificial Evolution (2000) |
| 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, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally.
Seth holds a 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. He is a regular contributor to New Scientist, The Guardian and the BBC, and writes the blog NeuroBanter.