Anil Seth

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Anil Kumar Seth
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Born (1972-06-11) 11 June 1972 (age 53)
Oxford, England
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.anilseth.com

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]

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Seth holds an 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. [3] He is a regular contributor to New Scientist , The Guardian [4] and the BBC, [5] and writes the blog NeuroBanter. [6]

He is related to the Indian novelist and poet Vikram Seth.[ citation needed ]

Early life and education

Seth was born in Oxford [7] and grew up in Letcombe Regis, [8] a village in rural South Oxfordshire. 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, was a research scientist at the Esso Research Centre in Abingdon, and won the veterans' world doubles title in badminton in 1976. His mother, Ann Delaney, came from Yorkshire. [9]

Seth went to school at King Alfred's Academy in Wantage. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, King's College, 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 has been co-director (with Hugo Critchley) of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, [10] 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' [11] and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project. [12] He was president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association in 2017. [13] [14]

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 New Scientist , The Guardian [4] and the 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. [15] 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. [16]

Books

Popularisation of science

Seth appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary The Most Unknown [22] on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Being You by Anil Seth – the construction of consciousness". www.ft.com. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Lane, Vicky Trendall. "Five University of Sussex academics among top 1% of most cited researchers in the world". The University of Sussex. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Editorial Board". academic.oup.com. Neuroscience of Consciousness. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Anil Seth". The Guardian . Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Anil Seth on consciousness, The Life Scientific". BBC.co.uk. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. 1 2 "About". NeuroBanter. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Anil Seth, D.Phil". University of Sussex. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  8. ↑ Burnett, Thomas (20 June 2014). "Probing the Mystery of Consciousness". John Templeton Foundation. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  9. ↑ Anil Seth, "Bhola Seth Obituary", The Guardian, 3 July 2013. Accessed 21 August 2019.
  10. ↑ "Anil Seth at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science". sussex.ac.uk. University of Sussex. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  11. ↑ "Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness". theassc.org. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  12. ↑ "Advisory Board". Human Mind Project. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  13. ↑ "Psychology Section". British Science Association. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  14. ↑ "Who we are". sites.google.com. BSA Psychology. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  15. ↑ GrrlScientist (17 November 2014). "Royal Society Young People's Book Prize winner announced". The Guardian . Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  16. ↑ Vowles, Neil. "University celebrates record year for professors in global highly cited researchers list". University of Sussex. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  17. ↑ "Being You – Anil Seth" . Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  18. ↑ Clive., Gifford (2015). Brain Twisters : the science of feeling and thinking. Seth, Anil. Lewes: Ivy. ISBN   9781782402046. OCLC   899705249.
  19. ↑ 30-second brain : the 50 most mind-blowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute. Seth, Anil, Bekinschtein, Tristan. New York: Metro Books. 2014. ISBN   9781435147843. OCLC   875565756.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  20. ↑ Clive., Gifford (2013). Eye benders. Seth, Anil, born 1976. Lewes: Ivy. ISBN   9781782400844. OCLC   861317419.
  21. ↑ Seth., Anil (2011). Modelling natural action selection. Prescott, Tony J., Bryson, Joanna J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781107000490. OCLC   934350929.
  22. ↑ "The Most Unknown (2018)". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
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