Anil Seth
@anilseth.bsky.social
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
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Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
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1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below
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There are interesting arguments that thinking is not the same as computation. Eg recent papers by @anilseth.bsky.social and @neddo.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There are interesting arguments that thinking is not the same as computation. Eg recent papers by @anilseth.bsky.social and @neddo.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I am super happy to co-organize this workshop with @singhal.bsky.social, @kathrynnave.bsky.social, @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social, @robertchisciure.bsky.social, and @quantummoxie.bsky.social!
Here is a picture of the location 🤗
Join us! The Application Deadline is 20 December!
#ConSci
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Here is a picture of the location 🤗
Join us! The Application Deadline is 20 December!
#ConSci
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November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I am super happy to co-organize this workshop with @singhal.bsky.social, @kathrynnave.bsky.social, @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social, @robertchisciure.bsky.social, and @quantummoxie.bsky.social!
Here is a picture of the location 🤗
Join us! The Application Deadline is 20 December!
#ConSci
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Here is a picture of the location 🤗
Join us! The Application Deadline is 20 December!
#ConSci
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We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
Computational Neurophenomenology Cabin Workshop - Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (BAMΞ)
www.uni-bamberg.de
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
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Welcome to Humanists UK! @anilseth.bsky.social delivered our Rationalist Press Lecture earlier this month tackling one of philosophy and science’s most enduring questions: What is consciousness? And could AI ever have it? We're very pleased to have him onboard. humanists.uk/2025/11/20/n...
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Welcome to Humanists UK! @anilseth.bsky.social delivered our Rationalist Press Lecture earlier this month tackling one of philosophy and science’s most enduring questions: What is consciousness? And could AI ever have it? We're very pleased to have him onboard. humanists.uk/2025/11/20/n...
A huge honour to be a patron of @humanists.uk 🙏🏽👇🏽
Thrilled to welcome @anilseth.bsky.social as @humanists.uk's newest patron. At a time when understanding who we are is more important than ever, we're honoured to have such a lucid and compelling voice joining us to champion the power of rational inquiry.
New patron for Humanists UK: Professor Anil Seth
Humanists UK is delighted to announce the appointment of its newest patron, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth. He joins a stable of over 200 Humanists UK patrons with not...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A huge honour to be a patron of @humanists.uk 🙏🏽👇🏽
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Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join me, @anilseth.bsky.social, and @axc.bsky.social in this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb
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November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join me, @anilseth.bsky.social, and @axc.bsky.social in this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb
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Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article on a new phase of consciousness science ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article on a new phase of consciousness science ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb
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What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious?
I, @anilseth.bsky.social, and Michael Graziano weigh in:
gizmodo.com/what-would-i...
Thanks to Ellyn Lapointe for the opportunity to write about this.
I, @anilseth.bsky.social, and Michael Graziano weigh in:
gizmodo.com/what-would-i...
Thanks to Ellyn Lapointe for the opportunity to write about this.
What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious?
Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious?
I, @anilseth.bsky.social, and Michael Graziano weigh in:
gizmodo.com/what-would-i...
Thanks to Ellyn Lapointe for the opportunity to write about this.
I, @anilseth.bsky.social, and Michael Graziano weigh in:
gizmodo.com/what-would-i...
Thanks to Ellyn Lapointe for the opportunity to write about this.
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Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
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November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
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The last talk on the second day of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social on Can AI Be Conscious? Commentary by E.J. Green.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The last talk on the second day of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social on Can AI Be Conscious? Commentary by E.J. Green.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzvs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzvs...
"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure
are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data,
text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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INTERSTELLAR was released 11 years ago today. The 9th feature film of director Christopher Nolan, and one of the biggest science fiction epics of the 21st century, the story of how it was made will have you wondering at our place in the stars…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
INTERSTELLAR was released 11 years ago today. The 9th feature film of director Christopher Nolan, and one of the biggest science fiction epics of the 21st century, the story of how it was made will have you wondering at our place in the stars…
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Thank you. An absolute honour and a huge pleasure too 🎃👇🏽
An incredible lecture. A massive thank you to @anilseth.bsky.social, to all who joined us at Conway Hall (we had a packed house!), and to the 1000+ people who joined our official livestream too. We hope to see you all again. humanists.uk/2025/11/03/p...
Professor Anil Seth awarded inaugural Rationalist Press Lecture Medal
Humanists UK returned to Conway Hall on 31 October for the 2025 Voltaire Lecture. The event was delivered by neuroscientist Professor Anil Seth, whose work tackles one of philosophy and science’s most...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thank you. An absolute honour and a huge pleasure too 🎃👇🏽
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"Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software" | Clip of an interview with @anilseth.bsky.social and Michael Levin on Theories Of Everything
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Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
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November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software" | Clip of an interview with @anilseth.bsky.social and Michael Levin on Theories Of Everything
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZl...
And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 🎃🙏🏽👇🏽
Anil, @andrewcopson.bsky.social says, has the honour of being both the last Voltaire Lecturer and the inaugural Rationalist Press Lecture Medallist.
Congratulations @anilseth.bsky.social, Rationalist Press Medallist 2025!
And that's a wrap. See you all at next year's #RationalistPressLecture!
Congratulations @anilseth.bsky.social, Rationalist Press Medallist 2025!
And that's a wrap. See you all at next year's #RationalistPressLecture!
November 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 🎃🙏🏽👇🏽
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There's still time to book your livestream ticket and join us tonight at 19:00 for the #VoltaireLecture with @anilseth.bsky.social. We'll exploring one of the greatest mysteries in science and philosophy – the nature of consciousness itself. Book now!
humanists.uk/events/volta...
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What is consciousness, and could AI have it? | The Voltaire Lecture 2025, with Professor Anil Seth
Professor Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years
humanists.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
www.frontiersin.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?”
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
www.frontiersin.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?”
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
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Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy
Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US
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October 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? | The Voltaire Lecture 2025, with Professor Anil Seth
Professor Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years
humanists.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻
Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Chatbots now ace the mathematician's famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...