[Faith] Episode 3: Anil Seth - What Is Consciousness? (and Other Easy Questions)

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode of Faith for Normal People, cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth leaves no brain region unused as he joins Pete and Jared to talk about consciousness, experience, perception, what it means to be a self, and the ways a life of faith is impacted by being…well, a conscious being. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.7	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.5	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:06.5	Hey everybody, welcome to this episode of Faith for Normal People.
0:16.9	And our topic today is what is consciousness and other easy questions with our guest, Anil
0:22.1	Seth?
0:23.1	Super excited and honored to have Anil.
0:25.7	He's a world-renowned neuroscientist.
0:27.2	You were such a nerd.
0:28.2	I was nerd now.
0:29.2	I was nerd now.
0:30.2	You should have seen Jared nerding.
0:32.2	Anil is a best-selling author who studies and speaks on the science of consciousness,
0:36.9	artificial intelligence, art science, collaboration.
0:40.6	He's the lead scientist on an ambitious science art collaboration called Dream Machine.
0:45.7	He's the professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex and
0:50.3	all kinds of other things.
0:51.5	Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness.
0:54.4	He has a book called Being You, a new science of consciousness where he really breaks it down
0:59.0	for everyday people.
1:00.4	So I would encourage you to check it out.
1:02.3	It won a lot of awards.
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