Because with heat, now there you really do have something for which measurement was absolutely

critical, and which when reliable measurements were possible, heat became expressible along

a single dimension.

Life is not the kind of thing that is measured on a single scale, and that's fine.

That's just the kind of thing life is, and I suspect consciousness may be more like life

than like temperature.

Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast.

Today we welcome Dr. Anil Seth on the show.

Dr. Anil Seth is the professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University

of Sussex, where he is also co-director of the Sackler Center for Consciousness Science.

His research has been supported by the European Research Council, the Welcome Trust, and

the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Dr. Seth's 2017 main stage TED Talk is one of the most popular science TED Talks of all

time, with more than 13 million views.

His latest book, which has received numerous accolades, is called Being You, A New Science

of Consciousness.

This episode I talked to Dr. Anil Seth about the new science of consciousness.

Although we don't know exactly how or why consciousness exists, Dr. Seth thinks this

shouldn't stop us from exploring its properties.

One of the things he explores in his research is the conditions for consciousness.

He talks about a concept called perceptual diversity.

He believes perceptual diversity exists, and that we would be misguided to try and standardize

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