• #95-Critical Thinking and the Nature of Human Consciousness-with guest Anil Seth

  • Jun 25 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
  • Podcast

#95-Critical Thinking and the Nature of Human Consciousness-with guest Anil Seth

  • Summary

  • Research and current theories about the nature of human consciousness are explored with guest Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. Topics include: how human consciousness can be thought of as controlled hallucination, the relationship of human consciousness to critical thinking, how thinking of the brain as a "prediction machine" affects how we form beliefs, and a number of other topics from Professor Seth’s international best selling book: Being You-a New Science of Consciousness. Dr. Seth has co-authored close to 200 journal publications, and is a regular contributor to the New Scientist, The Guardian, and BBC.

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