"Lucid, engaging ... awe inspiring and humane." Being You is one of New Statesman's 20 essential reads of 2021, across all categories. I could never have imagined sharing a list with Kazuo Ishiguro - but here we are!
Scientist, Author, Speaker
The science of consciousness
Understanding the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the great challenges for 21st Century Science.
Being You is a New Statesman Book of the Year, an Economist Book of the Year, a Guardian Book of the Week and Science Book of the Year, a Financial Times Science Book of the Year, a Five Books Philosophy Book of the Year, and a Bloomberg Business Book of the Year.
Interviews and conversations.
Academic and public engagement projects.
What’s coming up and what’s happened.
Consciousness at TED
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
My main-stage TED talk now has more than 12 million views.
Being You has been chosen as a Best Science Book of 2021 by both The Guardian "A brilliant and profound book" and the Financial Times "fluent and accessible". And for Five Books it is Best Philosophy Book of 2021 too!
Being You has been reviewed in the New Statesman! "In lucid, engaging prose Seth deftly navigates long-standing philosophical debates over the nature of consciousness". Read the full review here.
Being You - A New Science of Consciousness is now a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, as well as a Guardian Book of the Week! What a start 🙂 I'll be discussing the book on BBC Radio 4's flagship Start The Week on Monday 13th Sep (9am).
"An exhilarating book: a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text." Being You - A New Science of Consciousness is Book of the Day in The Guardian.
New paper! Skora, L., Seth, A.K., and Scott, R.B. (2021). Sensorimotor predictions shape conscious visual experience in a breaking continuous flash suppression task. Neuroscience of Consciousness, niab003.
We’re excited to be part of the team selected for Festival UK*2022 – a UK wide celebration of creativity and innovation that has commissioned ten major public engagement projects, designed to reach millions.
I’m delighted to have been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant in the 2020 application round. Project CONSCIOUS will take our work in exciting new directions over the next 5 years.