Anil Seth
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Anil Kumar Seth (born the 11th of 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]
Anil K. Seth | |
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Born | |
Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA) University of Sussex (MSc, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience Consciousness |
Institutions | University of Sussex |
Thesis | On the Relations between Behaviour, Mechanism, and Environment: Explorations in Artificial Evolution (2000) |
Doctoral advisors | Phil Husbands Hilary Buxton |
Website | www |
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.