Anil Seth
Cognitive Science
United Kingdom
1972
102 quotes
British cognitive scientist exploring predictive processing in perception and self.
Most quoted
"To understand consciousness, we need to move beyond the idea of a 'ghost in the machine' and embrace the idea of a 'machine in the ghost'."
— from Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, 2021
"To understand consciousness, we need to understand how the brain constructs its best guess of the causes of its sensory signals."
— from The Predictive Brain, 2013
"Consciousness is not a single thing, but a collection of different properties, each of which can be scientifically investigated."
— from Interview with The Guardian, 2018
All quotes by Anil Seth (102)
Life is a series of best guesses.
Book: Being You
2021
The mind-body problem dissolves under predictive processing.
Book: Being You
2021
Contemporaries of Anil Seth
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Anil Seth (1972).