Anil Seth

No idea yet … and yes, it would!

No idea yet … and yes, it would!

Ah Mikkel - im so sorry to hear that. We don’t know where the film will land yet, outside the festival circuit. Hopefully it will stream somewhere.

Yep that’s going to be a challenge

Speakers | TED2026 View the lineup of speakers for TED2026: All of Us. April 13-17, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada

7/ Finally, in April (13-17) I’m very excited to be returning to TED to speak once more on the main stage, for this very special final edition in Vancouver, and last hurrah for the outstanding Chris Anderson era: conferences.ted.com/ted2026/spea...

6/ From Mar 22-26 it’s an equal honour to be the scientific chair for the 2026 @mesec-community.bsky.social winter school, in Epheseus, in beautiful Turkey. I’m excited to dive deep into consciousness discussion with the 20 participants: mesec.co/event/winter...

A journey into consciousness Join award-winning science journalist Michael Pollan to explore the mystery of consciousness, with a discussion of the mind w

5/ Back in London on Mar 21 (7pm), it’s my honour to host the one-and-only @michaelpollan.bsky.social at the Royal Institution to discuss his new book on consciousness: A World Appears. (I like the title!) www.rigb.org/whats-on/jou...

The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

4/ And look! The first 50 guests to arrive at the award ceremony will receive a free copy of the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay book, featuring all three winning essays in both English and Chinese 😊. Here’s my one, already out in @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

Berggruen Prize Essay Competition at SXSW

3/ Then on Mar 17, also @sxsw.com, I’ll be at the award ceremony for my essay The Mythology of Conscious AI, which won the 2025 @berggruen.org Essay Prize (English). The two winners of the Chinese Prize, Xin Huang and Xiaoben Liu, will also be there. 6pm at The Line/ events.berggruen.org/_mzdzx

Perceptual Diversity: Art & Neuroscience in Design SXSW 2026 Schedule | How can we design for a world where no two people experience reality the same way? This panel explores the science and power of perceptual diversity, how differences in how we sen...

2/ On Mar 16 I’ll be at @sxsw.com n Austin, TX for a panel discussion on “perceptual diversity – art & neuroscience in design, with Nell Whitely of Marshmallow Laser Feast & Katherine Templar Lewis (5pm, Marriot Downtown): schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

Conscious - CPH:DOX A neuroscientist confronts the mysteries of consciousness as a philosophical question about the brain becomes deeply personal.

1/ A few things coming up! On Mar 14 I will be in Copenhagen at CPHDOX for the world premiere of a new film, Conscious - all about consciousness & dementia. 8 years in the making, its been a privilege to work on this film w/ Suki Chan & Aconite. tix/details: cphdox.dk/film/conscio...

A lesser known flaw - prompt sensitivity

We talk much about the "hallucinations" of AI, which is unfortunate term that humanizes them (@anilseth.bsky.social's point, a better one would be confabulation.

What we talk less about is - prompt sensitivity.

“Never trust a panpsychist” is a motto that has served me well

Seeing isn’t always believing - and not seeing doesn’t mean it’s not there. 🧠🔍 Science reminds us: absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.
Another insightful reading 📚 “Being You: A New Science of Consciousness” by @anilseth.bsky.social
Never stop learning. Stay curious.

Thanks for reading 🙏🏽

Ummm that’s not exactly how I remember it. I rather remember wagering that a pragmatic materialism would make more scientific progress than a pragmatic panpsychism (if there is such a thing). But let’s see the video 🧐

We are privileged to welcome Professor Anil Seth (@anilseth.bsky.social) as our 2026 Sluckin speaker @uolsopvs.bsky.social @uniofleicester.bsky.social.

Event Details:

📅 Thursday 7th May 2026
🕒 5pm
📍 Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor, George Davies Centre, Leicester

Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots.

Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/

Cool paper!

Congrats 🥂 very exciting

Hmmm let me check. I wasn’t aware there was an embargo. I’m sorry for the delay - im working away at the response - lots to try to get in there :)

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMA The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

The danger of superhuman AI is not what you think. This essay in @noemamag.com by @shannonvallor.bsky.social is brilliant. Well worth a read. www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...

This has shaped up to be quite an exciting event! Join us ( @johanneskleiner.bsky.social @jolienfrancken.bsky.social ) this Monday to explore different perspectives about measurement theory & consciousness science 🤓
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

YouTube video by Conspicuous Cognition AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth)

Henry Shevlin and I chat with @anilseth.bsky.social about his scientific and philosophical case against conscious AI: youtu.be/wVYg8u5xjno?...

Really enjoyed this conversation 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

Here is the direct link to the Open Access book. The "book pdf" downloads the whole book, or there are links for individual chapters too.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...

Thank you for the commentary :) I’m still plugging away the response. Turns out it’s not so easy to write a response to 50 ways of being wrong ;-)

The elusive nature of consciousness A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem

My review of Michal Pollan's book on consciousness: www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...