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 |
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]
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.
Seth was born in England. 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. His mother, Ann Delaney, came from Yorkshire. Seth's family was based in rural Oxfordshire. His father was a research scientist at the Esso Research Centre in Abingdon, and won the veterans' world doubles title in badminton in 1976. [7]
Seth went to school at King Alfred's Academy in Wantage. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, 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]
Since 2010 Seth is co-director (with Prof. Hugo Critchley) of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, [8] 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' [9] and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project. [10] He was president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association in 2017. [11] [12]
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 also consulted for the popular science book, Eye Benders, which won the 2014 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. [13] 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. [14]
Seth appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary The Most Unknown [20] on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.
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