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From the archives: How unique is perceptual experience? Neuroscientist @anilkseth shares his insights on this episode of the Templeton Ideas podcast.
Listen or read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/4agaPsh
It's here! Uncommon Ground brings you a different kind of debate - hosted at Yarnton Manor, Oxford.
Watch or listen now 👉 https://justinbrierley.com/uncommon-ground-podcast/
Season 1 features:
@RichardDawkins & Rowan Williams
@CosmicSkeptic & @glenscrivener
@anilkseth & @dr_mcgilchrist
Elizabeth
Anil Seth argues that consciousness is almost certainly rooted in biological life—metabolism, embodiment, and self-regulating processes—making truly conscious AI on silicon extremely unlikely.
He warns that the persistent myth of conscious machines risks ethical disasters,