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Feature interviews and selected coverage
La creacion del yo, El Mundo, 2026
Just one question, Die Zeit, 2025
The people who think AI might become conscious, BBC In Depth, 2025
Consciousness is a controlled hallucination, Popular Mechanics, 2025
Aux animaux la conscience, Le Monde, 2025
Onze perceptie is een illusie, NRC, 2024
The hard problem of consciousness, Montreal Review, 2024
Mind Games, Novaya Gazeta, 2024
The world’s top thinkers for 2024, Prospect Magazine, 2024
Anil Seth, neuroscientifico, El Pais, 2023
Review of Being You, El Pais, 2023
Top 50 Innovator, World Summit AI, 2022
5* review of Dreamachine, The Guardian, 2022
5* review of Dreamachine, Evening Standard, 2022
Dreamachine in Belfast, The Thin Air, 2022
Did consciousness arise to keep the body alive? MIND Foundation, 2022
‘Is reality a hallucination?’ Feature profile in The New Statesman, 2022
Dreamachine – an artwork you experience with your eyes closed. Wallpaper, 2022
Dreamachine – blowing British minds. The Guardian, 2022
The heady neuroscience of paying attention. Discover, 2022
Mind Over Matter. The Listener (New Zealand), feature interview, 2022
Nunca percibimos la realidad como es. Las Últimas Noticias (Chile)
Why we have a sense of self? Review of Being You in the Wall Street Journal
Best books of 2021: Science. Financial Times
The construction of consciousness. Review of Being You in the Financial Times
The best science books of 2021. The Guardian
The best books of 2021. New Statesman
There’s more to seeing than meets the eye. The New European, 2021
Is your sense of reality a hallucination? The Irish Times, 2021
Consciousness as a controlled hallucination. Information, 2021 [in Danish]
The exhilarating new science of consciousness. The Guardian Book of the Day, 2021
Real problems and beast machines: Anil Seth at BNA2021. Technology Networks, 2021
The Hardest Nut To Crack. The Observer feature interview, 2021
La consciencia en la AI es indeseable. El Mercurio de Antofagasta, 2021
Psychedelics: weighing the healing power. Cerebrum, 2021
Decoding Consciousness. Nature Outlook, 2019
What can VR tell us about real-world psychology? Times Higher Ed, 2019
The genius interview. Baku, 2018
Perception and consciousness. Tabula, 2018
How to think about … Consciousness. New Scientist, 2018
Could body-swapping work? SyFyWire, 2018
Uploading consciousness. Inverse, 2017
In conversation with Kevin Fong. Wellcome Trust, 2017
Animal consciousness. New Scientist, 2017
You are hallucinating right now. New Scientist, 2016
When does consciousness begin and end? Nova PBS, 2015
Emblems of Awareness. Science News, 2011
Identifying the roots of consciousness. The Observer feature interview, 2010
