EP.187 - ANIL SETH

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Anil Seth about the difficulty of defining consciousness, the difference between the idea of a self and a soul, what happens when things go wrong with your perception of self and those around you, the way that psychedelics alter consciousness for better or worse, and whether Anil's work has changed the way he thinks about the big D. Not Sunny D. The other one.

This conversation was recorded remotely on July 1st, 2021

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Becca Ptaszynski for additional editing

Podcast artwork by Helen Green

RELATED LINKS

TAKE PART IN THE PERCEPTION CENSUS

BEING YOU - A NEW SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Anil Seth - 2021 (ABE BOOKS)

YOUR BRAIN HALLUCINATES YOUR CONSCIOUS REALITY WITH ANIL SETH - 2017 (TED TALK)

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ANIL SETH - 2017 ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURE (YOUTUBE)

NICK BOSTROM - THE SIMULATION ARGUMENT - 2013 (YOUTUBE)

THE PARADOX OF THE ATHEIST SOUL by John Gray - 2020 (NEW STATESMAN WEBSITE)

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND by Michael Pollan - 2018 (MICHAEL POLLAN WEBSITE)

NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF by Julian Barnes- 2008 (ABE BOOKS)

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0:00.0	Yo-yo-ho-ho podcasts! Next week I'll be meeting Joe Cornish to record our annual Christmas
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1:05.7	Hello Adam Bucksdon here reporting from my local supermarket and I am using an app called
1:11.9	Microsoft Seeing AI. Among other things it reads out the information on packaging when I point
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1:23.6	have difficulty reading the labels of products due to sight loss or low literacy so this app can
1:29.6	make their lives a little bit easier. As I'm over 50 I'm thinking of buying some multi-vitamins.
1:35.1	I like the colours on this box so I'll just point my camera over here and see what I'm getting.
1:40.5	Processing, centering that old 50 plus 180 tablets easy to someone. Okay thank you Seeing AI, you get
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